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To kiss you is morning dew, like glue my lips stick to you, soft, and unlike my seas: carrier of ships and cargo of nations.

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Elfin lock:

this blonde for only you a tie of pink, the curl to hold like powder blue

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brew dew ewe

Thank you horseshoe old-shoe and glue to-do too-too brew dew ewe goo bamboo bugaboo buckaroo cockapoo and cockatoo kazoo skiddoo make-do one-two run-through non-U snafu subdue thereto undo wahoo déjà...

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Old Poem

I could not school the town if I tried- #1# In these streets I road, walked until ankle bone, skeleton white kept until night, the banks of me care not to write, the rose of fright, to be kilometers to...

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Poem

Dedicate yourself to one thing only This was my master, I had hoped to serve in the May light, fused to “the orange bottle” thinking what had I done to deserve   such a thing, to suffer, to not, and...

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revoked

In the old world you had to have a poetic license to use a metaphor— (to the ego, the force of the voice is by nature spirit- less) nor do I ask you for approval any more—  

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The Witch Stone

The body tethered to the wheel of crank and notch, the stretched torso with sounds of slow spinal pop and hiss — go now — gather the wood. I am a tar baby with kettles to cover me, goose down let some...

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Caste

I don’t play that black or white shit— we learned about racism young— now it’s about the rich against the poor

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Poem

I went to the hospital this morning for a follow-up appointment—I had had a seizure back in December— The Neurologist was handsome and kind—gave me a full body exam, mostly asked me lots of questions—...

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I’m Knott talking to the dead—

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verge

I gessoed over all my shoddy paintings— then hung the white nothings on my walls, to see about the space—

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On Caesar’s watch

Time is of seconds— and seconds tick, to minutes, minutes until an hour— and hours to bla—bla—bla— but history doesn’t wait— and eras were once a day— where as dates are a lifetime—

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untitled poem about fish

the scales on the fish in the murky water are intimate, nearly invisible—though I know what is hidden—so a feather floats by on the surface—but isn’t as mysterious as the flaunting fish scales beneath...

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Untitled Father

His abandonment hurls me into glacial, bottomless agony, inwardly gripping passageways of only air, so I go beneath, suspended in isolation, buried with the ghost of his absence—my only survival...

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Poem

I went to the hospital this morning for a follow-up appointment—I had had a seizure back in December— The Neurologist was handsome and kind—gave me a full body exam, mostly asked me lots of questions—...

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quarry Series II: Draft 8

the gleaming granite calls to each season as if never before— every storm individual then the year before—and the scent of moss and wet granite mixed with the death of leaves is exotic— opening with...

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My Little Kitten

My little kitten slouches too,scratches at my brand-new shoe. She rests beside me on the bed,she hugs and needs the cotton thread. She purrs and purrs as an engine could,so I kept her warm as a mother...

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power

anything in your heartthat residesthat singsthat helpsthat cherishesthat forgives however, non violent is possibleeven finding the graceto meet the heartless your strength in loveis the warrior of...

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God’s Children 3D Flipbook

Dear Readers: God’s Children, Flip Book: This is a book of Children Poem’s I wrote and illustrated by my daughter, Dahlia. The book consists of Sonnets, Hymns, Villanelles, Ballads, (Heroic) Couplets,...

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A Sonnet to God

I had found a way inwith the sonnet, God,in this glass vesselof holy water –reflecting the sunwhile crystal rainbowsshined out into day –divine assurance//unchanging deliverancethis almighty soundin...

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