Daily Archives: August 29, 2012

sky music

i heard hymns sung in thunder today the deep bass drum of the sky torn open to bleed rain

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(play)grounding

play(ground) so sanitary now gravel not grass under small feet; harder walking but softer falls & no wearing grass to dust under swings where nothing grows children chase each other in tribes, formed & warring in minutes in their game of … Continue reading

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tone of voice

we are instruments and our voices are well-tuned; sometimes we breathe language lightly & those scales feather skin like foreplay those tones you like, stroking spine & weaving through hair like elegant fingers but our words, too, carry little weight … Continue reading

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zoo nation (do not feed the animals)

***LANGUAGE WARNING*** no bad grammar, but I cuss a little in this one… politics regresses us. no grooming can kill all the parasites sucking us to anemia, but still we pick & stroke the minutiae that will bleed us empty … Continue reading

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