Monthly Archives: April 2013

This is a rewrite of a poem Polly wrote that I fell in love with over the summer. Have to share it with all of you.

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washing what’s dead

for mothers Mothers are beginnings, certain as life is movement, that first felt spin in the pit of the pelvis more directed than bowel gas, a twist with purpose to it; an introduction more real than EPT, sore breasts, or missed periods. We … Continue reading

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14 lines on Tuesday

We always argue on Tuesdays, an incidence regular and ticking as the timer set to a frayed fuse for a man who has made art of anger, slow, gradual– a daisy killer pulling petals from a yellow center of what used to … Continue reading

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Foolery

Yesterday’s robin is nowhere cheering Spring, so it must be a fool’s day, not dingus, and all of it downside up because pussy willows are nowhere near furring and there is no man I want to chase but a few that … Continue reading

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Someplace imaginary

I can pretend innocence, say the me he dreams is all him, but when he says somewhere imagined he is mine completely, and there, together we will be gods catching moonlight in buckets poured into pools to swim in, he has … Continue reading

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speak it

No stranger to myth I have shaped gods; golden calves, baby bulls of heaven recast before any can approximate worship because my God is jealous already, his world gravid with idols , and                   … Continue reading

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