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Promise: A toboggan anapest
Promise At the top of a very tall hill a toboggan sits, waiting for someone to ride it on down. And I think to myself, every time I pass by, that as soon as it snows I will take it … Continue reading
A harder love
A harder love than frost I love the autumn: The smell of leaves’ new colors, The golds, yellows, reds, The play of warmth and coolness, The wonder of birds in flight. You are my autumn. You are bright leaves on … Continue reading
Which Mad Pursuit
Which Mad Pursuit I forget the words you said but I could feel my heart in my neck beating oh-no; oh-no; oh-no— Running now, remembering, it keeps that time and my legs, my body following, running oh-no, chase oblivion. Coming … Continue reading
Random poem!
Delirium’s Lemonade Hat-Song I am the aardvark who empties his glass, then goes for the bottle; he wants to get smashed. I am the guitar that’s missing a fret that you tried once to play for the sake of a … Continue reading
Vanishing Point
There was nothing but the road. It was barely visible because the only hint of light was no more than a hole in the darkness somewhere unreachable ahead. Anything else that might have been was lost in a deep and … Continue reading
Small Warmth
(As long as we’re on a mouse theme – ) Small Warmth Oh, to be a mouse— a pet, that is, not a wild hated burrower-in-walls, gnawer, food-stealer, but gray, with loved and patted fur: a house-mouse, as it were, with … Continue reading
Ode of the Battle Poet
Ode of the Battle Poet Chop chop chop chop Chop chop chop chop Chop chop chop chop Stab. (Found jotted in charcoal on a piece of leather after the Skirmish of Round Rock)
The Melodious Rap Saga of Slimy Nim
(To be chanted with maximum energy) The Melodious Rap Saga of Slimy Nim My brother had a waffle! Its name was Slimy Nim! And every time he threw it out it came on right back in! He covered it with … Continue reading
Other Heavens
Other Heavens She shone for me like the sun, Bringing certain truths to a stretched-tight sky, Showing things according to her lights: The fire-freckles on rivers’ skins, The hues of crops arching high, The living, raging joy of fusion! She … Continue reading
Freedom
Freedom To the bird on the horizon, a far-off shape at sea: Could I ever soar to you? Would you ever fly to me? What pathways would we follow then, if such a thing could be That somewhere we could … Continue reading
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