Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

Zoe’s spinet

  gotten for the cost of hauling it here & feeding four friends who heave it through my sliding glass door is the instrument I said she could learn as it will not decay in that jungle she calls her … Continue reading

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if he shouts his silence (for R)

if he shouts his silence you will hear it quietly & your eyes will whisper truth making way for words

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shannon is turning to gold in a bathtub in texas while i fold laundry in my room alone. i think of the steps leading into the river how i would have followed you until we…

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artistry (2 poems)

1. her voice over violins or guitar always knows far more than it sings; songs with secrets throbbing against glass like hummingbird wings or luna moths at night whisper-humming through moonlight 2. she never just sits. she arranges herself the only place in … Continue reading

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Language, Suzanne Vega

I was in the mood for a little Suzanne V tonight…This one seemed apropos. “Language” If language were liquid It would be rushing in Instead here we are In a silence more eloquent Than any word could ever beThese words … Continue reading

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the pause before fall

the air has that ripening apple smell & nights are cooler. still, summer threads sun to my skin in the afternoon to blend coconut lotion heated to a gentle simmer with my vanilla & honey soap to draw out bees … Continue reading

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which heartbeat

let the world know that Rosa is dead this child holding in her body a life 10 weeks in the forming both doomed at her diagnosis the right to life is inviolable 16 years/13 weeks which pulse, whose movement do … Continue reading

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