Oh, ants: neighbors, not pests — my heart in cubes for serving — you get one.
Category: Poems
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Tithe
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It’s hard to catch the vast world’s tune; it goes on so long: it’s surprising when it begins to repeat to know it well enough to like it. Then, there’s the instrument I’m stuck with, embarrassing for its narrow applicability. Oh, well; here goes — and I blow or strike or strum or sing and accentuate the melody or compensate with harmony or engage in counterpoint or remain silent, waiting for a dramatic crash of symbols or discharge of canon and, at some point, appropriately — artfully add to life’s symphony.Again with the music
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Your wisp of smile: a wisdom of roses. Let me tell you: I kiss each one. Tell me: how many?
Petals
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Say it. Say it: it’s unfair that they sing while you have no song. No. Sing it. Sing it!
This Can’t Be Right
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Metallic nails with flecks of green, metallic eyes pierce me, crystallize my insides, and — ping–pong–ping — your light reflects through me. Then the warmth dissolving my chest until — what’s this? — flowers pouring out onto my embrace until through my arms they burst and a river of flowers floods over my dam hands.
Incidental Scratches
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What would I do if my blues weren’t beautiful?
Kiss Hand
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With every chisel, freedom. Within my text, a poem.
Om
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Alone at night, past the nadir, after the blood–boiling hour, when through tripping through the webs of the world, I wonder why I’m up. Then, as if nudged from dreaming, it occurs to me: the lilt of the nightingale gently reaches me; that living sparkling in the dead of dark chirping the light–hearted pronouncement of its being — safe to speak
Annunciation
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The dance in us celebrates persistent beings who perform forms we love.
Notes on a Spring Day
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I don't know how to break this to you: you have a heart… some sweet swelling; then, catastrophe — all the blood squeezed out till one wonders will it ever flow again, those milk and honey days? Like days and seasons throbbing with two reasons: one in upkeep, the other open to arcs replete with sun and rain, cold and heat.
Condition
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