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Poetry

The snow falls forever

Woken again in the fifth hour to darkness, and memories of a shattered voice who cannot leave his lover, and from the pretty recent past..

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serendipitous

a timeworn legend, this is regarding an avowal of destiny and karma, or call it, kismet and fate that assure nothing but, a soul mate..

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Madonna of the blue sky

long finger-nails  cream hands  and a smile that drives you to hell and beyond, there’s a boy out there who  calls me Madonna  we’re back..

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Body Oriented

Reassurance rests on the tendon joining humerus to ulna and brother radius, a plain broad enough to set up cup and saucer in the correct..

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The Little You Know About Yourself

The best of you is rare explosives are what it makes, The places you’re destined to reach was screened by design, The little you know..

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A vignette from a town of triumph

I looked through a pinhole in an antiquated room with an inverted umbra of an aged easterly spire, the mysterious upside-down shadow had me consumed..

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The Faucet

The faucet in our kitchen is getting old I had touched it When we came to see the apartment The first one of our married..

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Blue Hue

This poem won the first prize in the poetry competition of Alcheringa festival’s Zephyr literary event.

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Garden of the Restless Martyrs

ceramic mustard and ivory shells cradled in fruit skins and ashes once we were doll heads and now we are only ourselves we seem to..

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Jane Doe

Just a few broken bits of bone Some scraps of cloth and a hair or two Marked and placed in plastic bags Is all that..

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the eclipse and the exorcism

It began then, during the ten wet nights of red crabs clawing at the moon, a nymph that had just drowned in a maelstrom; the..

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Street Lamp

When the opaque dusk swells, The broken street lamp’s Pearlescence of glass shards, Overshadows the warmth of light bulb   The night is the unsung..

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I set out to paint the light

I set out to paint the light when it grows soft at summer’s end, but could not wrap my thoughts around the immensity of neglect..

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Aleppo

grief in weeks nothing has moved me.   i chase something and fail.   the screen dries my eyes.   no rivers flow in Aleppo…

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Elfie, Sheltie, Sallie, Shellie, Self*

Author’s Note: The title of this poem is attributed to the spelling suggestions one gets, when having typed: Selfie in Microsoft Word. This is also..

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Fox Harbor

for SB This is the most you’ve ever been a child. Once there was sand, thick saltwater paste on legs capable of anything; then, later..

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YERE YERE PAUSA

Yere yere pausa Come to me rain, let the drops percolate, collect in plastic tubs drained through pipes made of dreams and denim   Tula..

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North of Longing, South of Hope

I. every night you turn on the lights in the room he has left behind on another continent he buys a pack of almonds for..

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BEGINNINGS

All of the gin joints in all of the towns and you had to walk into this one* Beginnings don’t flow as easily as they..

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The Dreams of Tiny Things

The birds outside my window speak of world domination, the tiny gray sparrows have staked out my kitchen for the headquarters of their aggressive, bird-centric..

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MAKING PRINTS

“What was it like—-being married to Mick Jagger?” – (American journalist) “I had to be a hell of a whore in the bedroom.” – Jerry..

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Your Last Sad Vehicle

Keep watching those funerals — how they launch black sedans over cemetery landscapes, stop them by a new grave where the body enters orbit around..

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Hygge

I asked you what you wanted me to write and you said it doesn’t matter that you would read it anyway that it could be..