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Too cheap to buy the warmth of the real deal, our avoidance of all things Costco, the shove from covetous crowds, we watch the Fireplace...
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- 7 days ago
- 1 min
The Baby, Albeit…
Maybe I mirror you, in ways of unawares, as your mobile carousels above your head, a monitor that ensures you’re sleeping soundly, a roll...
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- Nov 23
- 1 min
Southpaw
Though I’ve always been right-handed, I’m a left-handed shot with the puck. I also hit left and hope the ball will clear the fence like...
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- Nov 21
- 2 min
Francisco Cavalier
i Free-form your way next to stairwells, push the prize cart you wish you’d won and earn a trinket for a sage and his ad vice. Very well....
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- Nov 18
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Happy Holidaze: A Christmas Ennead
i It’s the summer, and the sky a cyan-azure meld, eyelash wisp of cirrus and varied flowers perfuming the air. Too colourful to try and...
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- Nov 15
- 1 min
Television
They could see me, or so I thought when I was a boy, watching the anchor share the news, eyes sizzled into mine, to check if I gave a...
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- Nov 13
- 1 min
Spectacle
You’ve never looked so entrancing I declare, and you say my glasses are too smudged for me to know what beautiful is. Later, my naked...
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- Nov 13
- 1 min
The Baptist
You’ve never danced a day in your life. A good Baptist girl, never held in your twirl & sway, no arms around your waist, like an Eden’s...
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- Nov 11
- 2 min
Saints & Sinners
The only difference between immoral and immortal is the t, the cross of Christ, the minister said, leaving the sinful ways behind,...
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- Nov 11
- 1 min
Marconi
The eight-year-old next door tells us Macaroni invented the radio, something she learned in third-grade science, stars all in her eyes,...
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- Nov 8
- 1 min
This Bag is Not a Toy
This pellucid, plastic sleeve, slippery as an icicle to the touch, which held my trio of padded envelopes (used to mail those...
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- Nov 7
- 1 min
The Tortoise
takes it personally when called a Turtle— scantily referred to in poetic lore; remembered as a laggard, for its excessive longevity— over...
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- Nov 6
- 1 min
Mantis
It’s been years since we’ve seen one, and the wait was all for naught— its head raised haughtily, raptorial arms held far apart, not...
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- Nov 3
- 1 min
Untitled
I asked if you’d come up with a name for the poem you’ve been writing and you answered not yet, annoyed by my response: great title,...
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- Nov 2
- 1 min
For Michael
It’s a writer who will always have detractors, those who scorn no matter the masterpiece— Alexandre Dumas christened Alexander Dumbass by...
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- Nov 2
- 1 min
The Glory of Birds
The laurel is theirs alone, not some sun’s sluggish ascent up billowing stairs, or the caustic shrill of a bell we might ignore, because...
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- Oct 30
- 1 min
Bistro de Montréal
You’re hesitant to check the bill of fare, note de frais it says in padded vinyl, recalling as a girl you’d ordered consommé, after your...
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- Oct 29
- 1 min
The Dog Days of Guilt
These canine afternoons leave none to trek past leafy ceilings and the water bowls drowning bugs and as repellant as outside feels,...
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- Oct 24
- 1 min
Sui Generis
It’s never the same sky twice, I remark, on this walk that hugs the river and you’re right to cite the saying as a riff from our former...
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- Oct 24
- 1 min
Dream Away, Bomb Baby
and don’t even think about the rubble around your crib, the ceiling that crushed your mother and the walls blown out with a boom— that...
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