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Out in a field,
Weaving a wreath
Of cornflowers
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Head hurts, sounds
Of the faucet upstairs—I don’t
Want to write any poetry
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Reading on summer porch
Surrounded by oak and maple.
Beyond, useless world
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Squirrels the lorax
To my bygone yellow patch
Of sunflowers
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Alas! A sound the dog and I
Both thought could be her car
Was only a weedeater
by the cbw helicopters, distant hammering, trees rustlin, plants tussling, a crack-house green-house, dirty white chairs, car engines, pots, pans being pounded, faint TV (very faint), craigs list furniture, ants, a dangerous looking hammock nestled in the ominous shadow, some pot, some water, some sot who sought to wrought a write under a rotten umbrella, … Continue reading distinct observations of the 1st kind
Sky chopperKnows all the traffic.Barges float on,Down the river,Under bridges.The clouds signal weather;The banks give time and temp.And I find yet another reason.
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Shy but rugged stars
Have hiked the hills
But never walk the streets
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I could spend all night
Viewing the moon and writing.
Or I could sleep-dream
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The cop who stops to weep
On the shoulder of the road
Slows a thousand speeders
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Caught on the tracks
After tagging a train car.
Second coat still wet
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When a cry for help
Is hard on your health.
Saxophone doth wail, wail
Home, going back home. ToWhere my parents live, stillLive, on the other side of my oldRoom. It’s filled with treasuresOf forgotten days, theTreasures now forgotten themselves,Sunk to the murky floor of my life’s oceanAlong with pencil-hearted notesAnd the odd extra-base hit I managed.I go home, look around. I alwaysExpect to find something.A twenty stashed away … Continue reading Maybe I’ll Find Something I Can Use
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Stars make faces
When they tread the spaces
Between themselves and Earth
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Full summer-moon
And arch of garden hose—
You too can make a moonbow
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Mississippi
And Ohio confluence—
Almost an ocean
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Spending a summer’s night reading—
June bug fights the window screen
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Can I love everyone at once?
Moon shrouded
By only a bit of haze
along the long, tidal river an indian word meaning college towns a good use of land evergreens pine and droopy fir pinecones growing thick this time of year hike anywhere hike in your backyard up one of those hills see a warehouse from there a pond industry then forest forest then industry subdivisions before subdivisions advent and yellow buses bright as the low-hanging moon trucking its way through winter-white & brown/green undisturbed trees are islands in … Continue reading Landscape: Connecticut 2/07
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Stars make faces
When they tread the spaces
Between themselves and Earth
17
Full summer-moon
And arch of garden hose—
You too can make a moonbow
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Mississippi
And Ohio confluence—
Almost an ocean
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Spending a summer’s night reading—
June bug fights the window screen
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Can I love everyone at once?
Moon shrouded
By only a bit of haze
Coal porter can’t sing but he brings us barges of energy from the dermis of Earth & that sounds good to me.
Southeastern summer
Star chart took us miles away.
Unlit road brought us back
To sleep the sleep of myths.
In our dreams we spoke
to the after-image.
O, brightest star,
O, distant bug of lightning,
You’re a dying pinprick,
Poised to explode
First Then
And then Now.
You were in all of our dreams
That night.
You swallowed us
Like a drop of fuel
On your colorless voyage
To nowhere.
You became your own constellation.
The end of the light,
The beginning.
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