Tag Archives: poetry

for you

Dreaming I will wake walking with you & waking I will carry your name a secret kept under my tongue that begs to be shouted

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For Zoe

if sometimes you are loud, my daughter it is because those three continents you spring from shout together in one voice, uniquely yours, braided into one note, a history, sometimes bitter but purified, distilled & blended into your beauty, & … Continue reading

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busting up cliches

if it takes 2 to tango what happens when 1 detaches drifts from dancer to audience watches her partner ply those set patterns of basic outside partner forward 1-2-3 then slide leading himself that tango no longer suggestive but set … Continue reading

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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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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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