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A series of silly observations. Toss in a rubber crocodile and some occasional drinking stories, even the sappy poetry gets added. Its gemisched, but mostly silly.
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Team Poetry
So I wrote this poem and emailed a version of it to Gina, Judith, and Lorato play Team Poetry. The deal is:One person sends out an offering of a poem. Everyone gets to love it, snip a piece here, take a tangental line there, edit away and post thei...
Wrapped up in Iron
Remember the iron maskstupid moviedidn't touch what I'm thinkingwrapping myself up in rockfirst a layer of schist its sparkle and lightness a sequined dressafter all its a ball I'm going to have sliding down chutes inthe White Rivernational forest al...
Team Poetry- "Dying in Parts"
I wrote an original rough draft of the poem below, then got extremely frustrated trying to edit it. I decided it would be fun to ask my friend Gina to edit it since it had some portions I really liked but was sick of it and it kept looking at me and...
Too Dangerous to Fire
All the ingredients for potential: guns grief and whiskeyThe old Winchester lays in waiting on the shelfI’m told its too dangerous to fireAnd wonder at that ironyThe potential in my armsAnd hipsThey way they can moveProduce and destroyThe baby they...
Melting
warm full stringsstrummed the water toward the skyand the frozen over lakeyawned and stretchedreaching for golden deja vousa far off memory smells of down-home comfort foodcharcoal and shortsflip flops and a canoesend cracks through the slushy ice la...
"From Braid to Bullets"
There is a secret room within meIn it I braid my hair in the morningsgliding in a blue chair before riding a horse that is only knee highwhere the trick is to keep your legs up in half lotusand hang onWe all have secret placeswhere we sing and kill o...
A Footed Thought
The shape of the arrangement and the lilliesreminded me of yousweeping up your hairon the edge of the tubdangling a leg over porcelaina footed thoughtmindlessly stirring the potin my belly...
Morning Swim
dip a toe inmy mind a dull, blank slate shocked by the temperatureBuddha would be proudme in the momentI crawl from one end to the otherrays of sun cracking through my mind, waking, darts arounda pinball hitting subjects ding!But Buddha can't frownbe...
An Anonymous Woman
Her nest sits emptycracked eggs, blue and speckledused for someone else's breakfastnot the babes they were meant to bethe kitchen's now too cleanyou could eat off the floorso no one doesthe way they used tono crayon marks alert "off limits"noises' ec...
Shhhhh
I can't sleepMy mind won'tSshhhhhh...It flitsfrom problem to solutionthoughts' corpses pile upideas dismissedand deadto-do lists and inspirations alikelayered,litterthe samepile.Some flicker so shortlythey're hardly formedbefore miscarried away.The b...
Vibrant Yellow Ruffles
Fermented fallacies in vibrant yellowsa girl in pretty rufflesbarely chirpsa songbird caught in mechanical cogsturns to squawking, words lostsongs/languages, dyed and tintedVerbs full of huesa deaf ear ruesA linguist's careful calculationspour volcan...
Obama!!!!!
The news leaks first and then poursthe tears are in everyones' eyesand screams of triumphin the streetsand we are not a racebut a countryas the white flakes last on my lashesand drip down my cheeksloved ones callwho used to say"bi racial children wil...
Hurt Feelings
Your voice, like leaves blowing,reminds me of raked piles and falling.It hurts now that I'm older,what's underneaththe hard ground with its knobs of roots and bonesrottingmy hurt feelings.Maybe in spring your voice will turn liltingand something diff...
Interrogation Room
I sit across the tableyour long lashes mirror minein a police interrogation roomlong dainty fingers nervously fidgetabout the secrets I askthey could be mineI can't tell which side of the table I'm onthe glass is more than one waybreath constrictedby...
