Tag: free verse
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Rash
Stagger up and split the dice in two Roll to you with eyes cast left away Gardens kept under ceilings of blasted glass The small of your back reels to Botecceli- fully clothed // Oysters and hives and sweat Signatures too, held up in the pen you’re surprised I keep Hear me now in haze…
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Margaretha: Eye of the day
Teacher, How quick the winds in Java How blunt the blows And how deep the sea that closed your body round // Burnished in naught but a shield Impervious to so much of their poison. And to fear- in the end // Blow a kiss to the line Double back over legs that brought and…
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Wrung
The stench of it sickens the worms And the pull draws mountains and men Reimagined tranquility Down to your knees in it // I’d drown in it Gladly die in it Something else, innit // But for a curl and a dream and a whim Build up breeze blocks Bury the magnets in piles of…
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tchotchke
Wire thin up and springy at angles space here through twisted coil Hardened and bent by the frame // To throw the knot with another Overlap and hook and tangle Tough in learned recoil Unto malleable assemblage and chucks with softer edges // Sing amidst kilns and porcelain wildcats And jump in the city of…
The Humdrum Epicurean 