Everything is beautiful;
but, a tended thing is a thing of beauty.
Category: Poems
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Husbandry
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I used to collect the stuff.
Now, I let it pour over me.Manna
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Blind men construed
a monster.
How I cherish
your trunk,
your floppy ears,
your giant, innocent eyes,
your stubby legs,
your little tail.
I see you whole.
Dispel those phantom chains.
Fly! My angel, fly!Dumbo Redux
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Let me remove the thorn:
there may be blood.The Mouse and the Lion
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Hearts tend to embellish so much blood spilled pumping out vibrancy
Sanguine
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early memory
first crush
girl next door
— Ginger —
locks my mom
(carrying laundry)
out of our sunroom
(my adoring wonderment
at her bratty defiance
as I gaze from without)
mom miraculously
behind her
(out the gate
through the front door
up the stairs)
…
righteous spankings
(meted out to her)Portentous Hussies
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How absurd!
The notion someone would enjoy
pushing a boulder for eternity:
I was dismayed at first,
then railed against it;
after so many years
rolling it around in my mind,
I find it a worthy opponent.
Now I dance with glee
anticipating my coup de grâce
indefinitelyDamn You, Camus!
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Forgive me.
When I drove you home,
the peach fuzz on your dimples,
your lithe limbs fresh from practice,
your grecian forehead,
your long curly hair,
your quiet, earnest soul
made a lobster of me
caught boiling in my own blood.
I tried to hide it.
I felt the flames of my religion
melting away from me.
And the most cowardly sin
I may have ever done
is to ham-handedly deny
your tender and innocent maidenhood
undid me.Reckoning
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Exhaling
silently whistling
blithe as a tea kettle
steaming before it screams
nursed by her ribs
tender as a kitten’s underbelly
never looking up
smiling into her smartphone
as if she knew
as the smoke blewVaped
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for
my brief
flickering flame
soliciting
stars
I
thank youVotive
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