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Feb 2015
Iron Mountain
We still call the homeplace mom's
Calendar in the kitchen unchanged
Two years past
The old clock ticking
Branches tapping against a window
Iron Mountain through frozen rain
Like a silverback
White along the spine
Cold and silent
Strong against another winter.
r ~ 2/2/15
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Jan 2015
the archaeologist
She likes an archaeologist
cos he does it in the dirt
and the older she gets
the more he likes to flirt
She likes the way he smells
in a faded work shirt
hard and lean
but not mean
just a little bit assertive
He still let's her roll
her own cigarettes
and handles her gently
like a gold statuette
while they dance
with the shadows
down low
you know.
r ~ 1/29/15
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#gold
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Jan 2015
Corvid soul
I don't know the word
for this restless almost breathless
feeling in my chest -
the opposite of a bluebird
- a ******* crow, at best
a last call cawing
or is it a raven's kraa-kraa
this feeling -
like a shadow in clothes
- a fly in the eye of those
who pray for repose
of my soul.
r ~ 1/25/15
#corvidae
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Jan 2015
January morning
It's unseasonably warm
for a January morning.
I was dreaming of a girl
and blue western skies
...a faded bedsheet
sideways in the breeze
on an old clothes line.
I was dreaming
she was mine.
r ~ 1/18/15
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Jan 2015
camera obscura
light travels in straight lines
but truth often gets inverted
when worded through the pin-
holed window of closed minds
and blinds us with distracting
theories refracting on white walls
in a world of royals and riyals
and unnamed dark chambers.
r ~ 1/12/15
#cameraobscura
#11september2001
#saudis
#gw
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Jan 2015
hood(ies)
An Oklahoma politician
wants to outlaw hoodies
in the hood
It's true, it must be
I read it in Fox News :)
I'd sooner be in Missouri or Cleveland
or New York City where you don't have to
wear a hoody or raise your hands to get shot
There are other things more pressing
than hoodies in the hood
that don't need ironing
like hoods in suits
and the elephant in the room
that needs shooting.
r ~ 1/6/15
#foxnews
#hoodies
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Jan 2015
clouds
low, fast moving clouds
make me feel
like i'm standing
still on a mountain
wisps of cotton candy
and wind in my hair
there is a change in the air
a slower, colder
turning motion
all around me
my head in the sky
my feet in the sea.
r ~ 1/4/15
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