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Poetry

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Two bikers, the bartender, me, and a skinny girl in skintight blue jeans.
Poetry
At night the voices on the patio sound like small darting birds.
Poetry
Years ago I wanted parallel lives, to see how it turns out for all of me.
Poetry
I’ve taken the pledge and made donations of blood to the world.
Poetry
How large our muscles have to be to lift our wings even a single time.
Poetry
My baby was calling to me. But I was welded to the mountain.
Poetry
What do you offer someone who has lost half of her beginning?
Poetry
My brush an M-16, thirty-round clips for tubes of paint, all of them red.
Poetry
Even the busiest of businessmen are out for the count, paying the price.
Poetry
What excuse did I use to pick a fight with that arrogant poet?
Poetry
Soon everything here will be sopped up by time. Only art will last.
Poetry
I am veins and breath, the entrance the world passes through.
Poetry
You know what you’ve come looking for you probably won’t find.
Poetry
There’s nowhere he can kiss where she hasn’t been kissed by the sun.
Poetry
Michael McGriff
Poetry
They plant whispers where shouts incinerate into hisses.
Poetry
This is the stupid math of loving another human being.
Poetry
A child no bigger than small change calls from her window j’ai faim.
Poetry
Through the dark, we say, through the dark: but do we ever really know?
Poetry
Who are we? Without one another, who will we be?
Poetry
Regarding the affairs of our Father, your demon is Ennui.
Poetry
Let’s rummage through each other’s bodies like a blowout sale.
Poetry
I’m from Boston, is that why I imagine Fredrick’s emotions for him?
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At Walden Pond, Henry Thoreau clicks like on the “Wilderness” page.
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Dainty morsels do not fail to attract gentlemen as well as ladies.
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She bequeathed her children a mother who dreams and smiles.
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Like lions in cages, women like me dream . . . of freedom . . .
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With these fingers, afraid and aware, I stroke your delicate skin.
Poetry
i silenced with my hands the loud wet thing that would not let me sleep
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The old hen scratches then looks, scratches then looks. My life.