Tag Archives: poetry

12/22/2012

days are never important in advance– but this one, the day after the apocalypse that didn’t carries more weight than the snow I woke to the world is still here and so are most of us but not all that woke … Continue reading

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Shamhat

two miles away from you may your lover tremble with excitement, one mile away may he bite his lip in anticipation I would have journeyed to him unbidden, my path from the temple fated and traced by sandaled feet, dusty but still … Continue reading

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storm warning

I crave that covering over everything raw snow promises the blindness of winter how small things together change what is seen to iced monochrome

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apocalypse in the first world

we lost electricity for 5 minutes 5 minutes of dark to hear rain on the roof and wind twisting tree limbs into stick figures practicing yoga and my girl running for the candle by the light of her tablet asked me … Continue reading

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a certain day became now

A certain day became now this unfolding us in moments an origami I smooth, learning past language and in texture and heat this us in trimmed accordioned paper doll chain selves and none of them true copies teach me the you I cannot … Continue reading

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raw

some things we are un comfort able reading the too personal center slice served bleeding on our plates meat we cut and call pink but we chew it bones and all– we are ruminants grinding pain between molars, eavesdropping a soul’s breaking and call it … Continue reading

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sugar cubes and needles

disease has no morality and antibodies are blind to whom they protect cellular insurance bought with a wince and a cry that small pain, forgotten in minutes buys a lifetime without braces and canes, free of the hiss of ventilators or rooms … Continue reading

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