Poetry
Through the Sea Black as Tar
I cannot reach you… If the waves would rise on the first day of September a Prince of Venice will depart down the sea..
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Do You Remember My Name?
I only want to know your name. there is a drizzle of homemade jam on this memory i think i have, like a hug under..
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A Pastoral Woman
(1) On Rogation Sunday in a field in Kent The flowing blessing is presently underway. And in a building too shy to hold a woman..
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The harbor never changes
Scour-faced, jet-lagged, fresh from the airport, they plod up the tower’s steps and stare across to the Old Man of Storr’s sky-pointing finger. And..
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2017
I. She relates to me that a race vet in Kaltag has misplaced a glove, gone gloveless and at forty below developed frostbite. This year,..
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The Fang of Oblivion
It has become mechanistic at this point. I placed the blade in your larynx. I have grown tired of your voice. Your speech isn’t free…
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A Foray into Metaphysics
They were trying to catch my eye as I hurried past an old tree, the abandoned pencil factory, and what was rumored to be a..
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The Housewife Dreams the Drifter
Here beneath the hems of evergreen, beside the weathered shed where sunlight doesn’t reach, the housewife squints and takes it all in until she sees..
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23
At 23 let us count the things We have lost to the fire: We entered the Corporate We skipped the breakfast On Monday mornings We..
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Snow-hauler
Heavy snowfall at a military base, in a scorching Naples in August: where the Austrias, and after them the Borbons, and much later Maradona, and..
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The Missing Anklet
No trial, truth murdered in cold blood, an innocent man slain. Kannagi stormed the palace in rage, the woman’s wrath unrestrained At the palace the diamonds spilled forth..
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Addah Belle’s Pocket Watch
Addah Belle’s pocket watch stands openon my desk like a sandwich boardadvertisement.I want to shrink down and crawl under it,camping in my ticking tent. Constellationsand..
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YouTube Search
I pressed “performance poetry” into YouTube’s search box kept company by a simplified magnifying glass on the right (in its own light-grey box): a type..
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Again
Over coffee, you tell me that it settles in your lungs way better than in your stomach. You tell me about those long drives when..
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Black
Black; The colour of my hair that you ran your fingers through And clutched and pulled back and Gasp; As our legs twirled under sheets..
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Guide to the Political Pirouette
Practice pirouettes in a safe place Clear of any sharp tweets or leaked emails Know your retracted position before you start Keep your shoulders and..
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Overview
“every ecology depends on death” cotyledons green to their task of rising into trees, unruffled by captions in a town in India a driver races..
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Though Time
Though your bones will turn to dust There is still time to love and lust Though your muscles soon will rot And memory will slip..
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Diminishment
“ there are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there” – G.K Chesterton no more does..
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Who wants to play with my rainy day – a found poem
my otherness sticks with me no matter where I go : never loan out your rainy day : how many bodies are we :..
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Making Art
The studio was lit by December smog, you’d make tea make lunch make breathless moans, then you burned plastic paint to make statements about the..
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Walk, After Lunch
A deer park, a duck lake, a fort— “It’s colder here, isn’t it?”— “Yes; we’ll walk fast, ok?” Distress clouds your eyes: “You should’ve got..
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Braille
lately my mind is a dreamy soup Yours, polished rosin. I stand grey as a doorway To embody sleep my chance to mishear when you..
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Exiled at Home
I find it amusing, yes when people refer to their nation as the Mother Land. My mother’s land is not mine. I have no claim..