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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

You

Tears, behind my eyes, not sad, happy. For your you. It comes, with no hint. Phantom feelings, faint pines of sick, loss of losing you. My chest, taut, breathing, In a rush. Not for panic, but for thought of you. Flowers grow, where they never do. Hunger, stays away, while hungry, I become, for... Sign in to see full entry.

Library

Silver cable sweater a heap on his bent frame. Tears pile, behind his eyes. Reading peacefully, hair tossed as white straw. Knurled fingers hold paper news. Quiet here amongst the books, worlds on the shelves. He coughs, looks at me. He knows Dickens is here, Chaucer, and Tolstoy too. Holding the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Pebble

Appendages of properties, currency and credit, surrounded by gilded gates, loved by wanton paramours. Centering in the universe, a stanchion of power a warder of wealth. Epitome of want to be, a pickle of gold marinade, traveler of no where, no need to go there now. Pinnacled and crested, and done... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, April 24, 2006

Wee Prey

Sun, poked through holes in the barn. Swallows darted as pendulant hints. By a stall in the dirt a hobo slept, disturbed in his slumber, he pawed at his maw. An ant took hiatus, whilst taking his jaunt, between this drifter’s nose, and his sullied drifter lip. Antenna tuning suspicious, of the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Take Five

The station echoed, trains rolled steel on steel, distant, down below me. My feet said stop, they did, then I did. I needed to take five. Tired and tossed, my mind, drooled thought, and the spill, I ignored. I sat on terrazzo, feeling short, sitting down. Low enough to see the legs of all those that... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Born

Born The rain came, and through the sky It fell. Made mud cradles, filled fish homes, and a farmer smiled. Water opened, worsted wills healed the silver beads found green corn, while she washed in a brown cherry bucket. The last of his love, was drawn by soft sponge. The locusts made quiet. The... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, April 21, 2006

The Misfits of Mary Katherine

Brothers not as kin, But as a kindred three under asunder sailors In the bilge of the Mary Katherine. Banished to the bowels For mistakes, Made on the bridge. Under sail, One of them slept, When from the crow’s nest, He was to watch. Toll of rum Had taken him, During the throws Of a sail at dusk. A... Sign in to see full entry.

Before I Loved Her

She crossed the field with tears in her eyes. She thought she could enjoy white butterflies, her friends, before I loved her. Hayward 2000 Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Bin Boy

Bin boy been bad left school don’t work, too young. Hobbies has he, they lure him from books, make the bed, sleepy world. Food, fried fun, for bin boy don’t eat, nothing green, healthy don’t fly. Bin boy been bad, gonna spend days in that bin, invented for him. See, bin boy don’t know there’s a bin... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Partial Pant

Breathing, filling failing this, I’ll not make night. There is no sick apparent in me. Just a pant partial at that, enough is enough, lilt of life here in morning. A thank you I feel for the pant I feel. I’m happy here, afraid at first. Feather falling pants in a row ferrys of breath afloat by the... Sign in to see full entry.

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