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Night & Day
The night should never be feared. It’s been a faithful kind of friend who’s been misread, oversees our bodies’ healing in our sleep,...
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Ä’ostre
Animals are innately atheist—or so I’ve always thought. Until you said the Easter Bunny came, the drop of chocolate eggs amid the hops. I...
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1 day ago1 min read
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Immortality
I lament I’ll be forgotten once I’m gone. Failing to be the poet I had hoped. There are worse things in the world than not remembered....
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3 days ago1 min read
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Daniel
I’ll put up with it once a year, tie the wormy laces of my Converse, not to look respectable but to ensure I will not trip around the...
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4 days ago1 min read
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Dog Sitting
The dog won’t let me type this tangled poem. She’s doing what any other dog would be doing at this instance:  whining, yelping, walking...
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5 days ago1 min read
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Heels Over Head
The novel I’ve just read was printed upside- down. You say I’m a buffoon, one too daft to know it was simply held amiss,  by one hundred...
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6 days ago1 min read
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Ingénue, or she went the light ekphrastic
and rejected every Rembrandt, surrealist Salvador,  even Warhol’s tomato soup; had no stomach for van Gogh’s ear, Pollock a breaded...
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6 days ago1 min read
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Venera
You grumble that it’s humid. You’re drooping from the flashes of the night & nothing else. I’ve felt the melt of foundries, the rooftop...
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Apr 141 min read
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On the Fall of William James
I’ve always overblown my heart’s confessions, what I’d do  for you,  screaming from the mountains every minstrel boasts they’d climb,...
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Apr 131 min read
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The Claddagh Ring
You lost it in the bathtub. Too close to the swirling suck of drain. Water’s little magnet to the sewer.  A circle is devoid of birth &...
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Apr 121 min read
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Tearing Out the Nettles
My love is not a flower, it’s a weed. Line of schmaltz aside, a bloom is an affront to what I hold. Its vivid scent & colour fall away...
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Apr 111 min read
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The Spectrum
I know you are empathic. No gradient on your scale of grace & pity. All of us are brown on the colour wheel. It’s only a case of shade...
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Apr 101 min read
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On the Art of Humblebrag
I’m so honoured to announce my very latest publication. In the journal, High Prestige. Among so many gifted poets—I’m un- worthy to...
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Apr 91 min read
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And Then You Wonder Why I Drink
Don’t write when you imbibe, they said. Love in a billion tongues. But only when you’re sober. We won't make it to the ‘30s. Depression’s...
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Apr 81 min read
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Celebrities
We don’t need the athletes to survive. Their million-dollar payouts just to dunk a rubber ball. And the actors? Please. We shouldn’t give...
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Apr 81 min read
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Caffeine
For the price of a cup of coffee you can … no, I need that supposedly expendable cup. Do not belittle its worth to my morning drill.  I...
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Apr 81 min read
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Dirge for the Late of April
The woods across the road had begun to bud then stopped. Yes-yes, another bloody verse about the leaves which are to waken. But this time...
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Apr 81 min read
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Metacarpus
What is the glint that’s peeking from your pocket, your feet along the bank? Is it the transpicuous green of glass, or from a stone too...
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Apr 71 min read
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Gambol
There’s a single footprint in the freshly laid cement across the street. It’s in the very centre of the 12’ x 12’ now hardened concrete...
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Apr 61 min read
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With Thanks to My Electrician
The light switch in the bathroom is somewhat tilted, off-kilter with every purple square of tile, the baseboard that’s the footer to...
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Apr 51 min read
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