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manny carpenter tosses us
manny carpenter tosses uswewho were capturedinto a legal system by compressorcrowdedinto the tanklike saturday night drunksmeasuredin pounds per square inchwe weighwhat air weighswe were sentencedto incarcerationin basketballtransportedby hose injectedwith a needle through a valvein admissionand here we arewe are legionit’s our numberthat makes the room roundso round the ceilingis the wall and the wall is Continue reading
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before blondes before brunettes before redheads came
before blondes before brunettes before redheads cameto this country werethere deerskin robes with fringes and beads and bells wornby women who faced the fire orangecrack of light at day risein a season between leaf bud and leaf fall were there women who faced the fire orangecrack of light that dividedthe dark sky from the darker Continue reading
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like glaciers the mountain
like glaciers the mountainlike rain forests like jungles its body’simmune to every plague it carriesinside the closed bag of its own hideif it has lungs it holdsinside itself every virus it breathesinto its own bloodstream if it has veinsthe mountain doesn’t breathe outif it has blood it holdsinside itself every toxin it bleedsinto its own Continue reading
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stay the night and wake with me
stay the night and wake with methe morning’ll come it’ll bein the deep of winterthere’ll be snowon the black branch outside the windowwhile you pull your boots oni’ll step out and start the cari’ll brush the snow from the windshield and when you comewe’ll sit and share the visioni’ll turn the heater on and when Continue reading
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some of those
some of those spirits in the air over the mountain gathered themselves into a girlwind who wanted music before there was a word for music and slowly she began to dance and danced herself into a salsa dance and danced herself round and round and danced herself into a spin and spun faster and faster Continue reading
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once upon a time
Years ago, I submitted this poem to Pif Magazine for publication: They published only the first half of it. I wasn’t happy with the ending either; and for thirty years I tried to make a more satisfying ending for the poem, without success. Today, with more experience in reading and writing poems, it occurs to Continue reading
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a pregnancy begins with
a pregnancy begins witha decision to keep a kittenone that’s left behind in the middle of a summer night in which people emptyan apartment across the sidewalkinto a single box on a pickup trucka kitten that comes in the colourof a sky pregnant with rain one that mews and scratchesclaws at the outside of the Continue reading
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there’s horizon where memory begins
there’s horizon where memory beginsyesterdayi stopped at the old place on forty thirdthe house was bulldozed years agothe last traces hauled awayand yet it vaguely sitson the farthest horizoni’d point a fingerbut i know you see it toofrom here the painton the old wood siding looks crackedpeeled faded yellowedor yellow i’m not sureshow me the Continue reading
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beware
bewarethe hollow of the planet that revolveson the axis between the povertieson an old man’s shouldersit’s the oven that fills with firethen frost then again with fire the forgewhere forms the idea to steal the goldearrings from a lady’s lobesthe silver pendant from her throatand from her doublet the brassbrooches beware the ideathat becomes firm Continue reading
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