Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

haiku: process

formed before I write the poem in all things finds me breathless and waiting

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our chemistry

this mad science passion, heated & distilled captured by drips into a flask left to age & softened by dust settling on the surface darkened by time its contents when opened should sublimate to something pure & uncatchable love (?)

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the heaviness after rain

creek full to the limit kisses the high stone banks & bleeds into the woods even air is denser, sweeter more sipped than breathed & everything green grown sleek with water saturated from the roots up yesterday’s thirst pale memory … Continue reading

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HH: Lock prompt 6/2/12

you hold key and lock one in each hand and cannot see the solution? *** you lock and unlock your answer a pendulum swinging yes and no

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ontology (throwing stones–again)

a stone has whatness that is measured, tasted, seen & felt as stone & not feather its  howness weighed first in my hand so I know how very much stone it is heavier than air that is slingshot through that … Continue reading

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hillcrest

we used to ride bikes here our tires fluttering with playing cards threaded & tied to the spokes how many times did we race past this spot where I would bury you?

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magnetism

if our 2 halves of the same heart cry out to each other & shape their energy like magnets of opposing polarity & similar strength physical laws dictate they will meet somewhere between where you & I are standing what will … Continue reading

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