Tag Archives: poetry

transience

brightness I yearn to taste faster than snowflake on my tongue melting sweet or cupped sunlight escaping palms unkeepable joy still skipping this shared and witnessed perfect transience  

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the boy on the street

you move through the day wrapped in music, cosseted, separate not listening to voices or birdsong, or car horns and braking wheels but the pop threaded cranially through the softest ear-buds, your ears wired, your head down, reading the screen instead … Continue reading

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Fizzy Feelings and Fuzzy Physics: Heat

By Noel Ihebuzor and Susan Daniels Dense  with entropy, warm interplay life’s strumming is thermal, made in heat and made with heat beginning in fusion and fission of stars heat riots everywhere, all ways stored in bonds and energy fields … Continue reading

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Folk story erotica

if everything begins once upon a time let’s explore the princess and the pea with delicious sensitivity sleeping beauty ringed by thorns fondled by the prince before he kisses her awake and jack, with his stalk that grew as tall as … Continue reading

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Freud at the poetry reading (playing doctor): A duet

By Susan Daniels/Noel Ihebuzor The overly-perceptive doctor picks up what I throw down so easily, transparency of word, implied action, mistake the client reclines on the couch slowly unwinds, shedding layers in progressive concealment, unknowing speaking words and signs, opaque … Continue reading

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crumbs

to give sparingly is what I do well better to keep the essential self hoarded for leaner times but you for you I break easy as bread thrown down and offered up without reservation ***second time I have used bread … Continue reading

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rising

sun should heel this unteachable sky shamelessly blooming into pinks anticipating heat but waits until birds shout it all the way awake singing it day with flow into dark flocking glyphs their winged smile shapes in flying a name unpronounceable to these lips of … Continue reading

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