Tag: poem
member name: El Toro Bravo de Amor
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October 17, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
Every morning without coffee is dark and cold
The lab order for blood tests specified “fasting”
Forty-five minutes waiting with the hopeful,
their fingers crossed waiting for a winning hand . . .
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October 12, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
Man, I hated going to parent teacher conferences
As if I were unaware of my love of the easy way out
my preference for the gently sloping downward path
My parents weren't hearing anything new either . . .
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May 04, 2008 03:54 PM EDT --
Your hands nest in your lap like doves
music of your laughter soars like a sparrow
rising to its home beneath the eaves of spring
Can I ever seek another land?
here I have built my . . .
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October 13, 2007 12:33 PM EDT --
Of course you are spiritually bereft. No one needs to tell you that. From inside the bars of your rib cage, you can barely get a glimpse of blue sky. You are ready for some good news and overjoyed . . .
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May 06, 2008 11:59 AM EDT --
Nuns taught me haiku:
even now it burns
to break the rules
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August 02, 2007 09:09 AM EDT --
The axe handle remembers
the years before the violence
when it turned against its own
The dry grain of memory
holds a green picture of home
Days of bud and blossom
When the seasons flowed
in rings . . .
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October 04, 2007 09:22 AM EDT --
I'm forgetting your smile
ripe and wide as a melon slice
your constelllation of freckles
where I traced Andromeda
I renounce the memory of your breasts
and . . .
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August 27, 2007 11:54 PM EDT --
He knows where they are biting
whether to use bait or a lure
and if he should jig or troll
that a fish feels confident
if you let them have some line
before you give it a big jerk . . .
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July 05, 2007 09:18 AM EDT --
a box of darkness
kept on a closet shelf
everybody's soul
writes a solemn record
in its hidebound book
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December 26, 2007 03:25 PM EST --
" When will we get there"?
We passed them miles ago.
No, really. that was them
the "best days" of your life.
They're behind you now.
Hey, I didn't build . . .
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May 06, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
ledger lines are handholds cut
into thestoneabovethestaff-
hang there...
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May 09, 2008 01:22 PM EDT --
Evening
Evening colors wept up and eastward
Daylight was just a fair-weather friend
Parking meters expired all over town
Please tell me this is not my shadow
Broken on the wheel . . .
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January 04, 2009 02:33 PM EST --
That's where I found you
when I finally moved the jukebox
Letter and number worn away
from spinning you again and again
You cut a record in my past
They play our song in lonely . . .
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May 10, 2008 06:36 PM EDT --
I swore I'd never write you again but futility is more just a waste of paper. It's not that I needed to have the last word either. . . .
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May 10, 2008 10:22 PM EDT --
I pretended to speak hieroglyphics once
Trying to impress a woman. Truth was
I didn't even like hummus. But
When a girl's got a sun disc over her head
and her long slender rays . . .
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June 12, 2007 12:34 AM EDT --
"I want a divorce." she said, wearing the outfit she'd purchased just for this occasion: black Nine West platform pumps, that while lengthening the leg, also provided the . . .
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January 13, 2009 05:47 PM EST --
Violence 101:
When you close your hand
it fills with darkness
. . .
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August 04, 2007 03:36 PM EDT --
Stable
Her clothing identified her
as an English style horse woman
Happy thoughts? She asked me
Dumbly blocking the soda machine
Shuffling aside to lamely explain
I thought horses . . .
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December 26, 2007 05:16 PM EST --
sometime during the night,
my wife turned over
clutching the comforter
to her chin in a death grip.
this one thoughtless act
pulled the whole world
west with her . . .
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October 02, 2007 11:42 PM EDT --
As you age you need less
they say, of sleep I mean
you hope it's true but long
for days you slept if tired
or maybe went without
but it was up to you then
Until noon? What the . . .
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