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Back From Vacation
"Back from vacation", the barber announces, / or the postman, or the girl at the drugstore, now tan. / They are amazed to find the workaday world
John Updike
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/hours\light/pe[n]guins/spirits\incantations/l[o]ves/ May 15, 2013 at 8:21pm
what is more gentle, / than this pillow of the light? / a life narrowing,
@martin-narrod
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The Moon Undresses You
. / The moon undresses you, little bird, / Your eyes are indigo skies without stars,
@ormond
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Eddie takes care of me.
Eddie takes care of me. / Our heads laid neath / street lights, a wild sky,
@courtney-pruitt
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THE CRUCIBLE
Father, you are the blueprint of my soul, / And though I sense our parting drawing near, / The crucible of death will make us whole.
@andrew-m-bell
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Poseidon and The Gull
Poseidon reared his unkempt head / Above the waves today / An ocean monster dripped in dread
@adhesive
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e-scentually good
there are some things, / that just smell so good: / corn freshly shucked, potatoes roasted in campfire coals, carrots fresh from the ground, then washed and stovetop roasted
@betterdays
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Plumage
The clock smiled at us / as if it knew we were lost. / Unable to see the path, we continued along
@aaronmullin-fb
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The Moon Undresses You
. / The moon undresses you, little bird, / Your eyes are indigo skies without stars,
@ormond
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1.7k
Abalone Shell (Edited)
Graffiti covered / stones litter / the once pristine
@anthony-b-perales
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Us
Us, / not / us in any common sense,
@perig3e
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*KiLl sHarE
princess blood cult / throne of tethers / rumor's of frazzle drip murders
@zebrablack
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Sparrows Can
Starbucks cups of Kenya (fair trade) / Academic palaver and ennui / Interrupted by a hovering sparrow
@don-bouchard
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The Moon Undresses You
The moon undresses you, little bird, / Your eyes are indigo skies without stars, / Your breath is summer grass after shower.
@ormond
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Geneva Park. Apt. 315 B.
It's that time of night when i get feverish / in my dreams, fucking girls with tits loaded, / thighs gloating and supple, pressure of hardcore
@Waverly
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The Searching
. / After childhood sleep, / Of days into dawning,
@ormond
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901
The Moon Undresses You
. / The moon undresses you, little bird, / Your eyes are indigo skies without stars,
@ormond
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e c l i p s e
at a glimpse i clock the sky / a curtain's been draped / and we are all shaded
@neth-jones
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Thinning Hair
Shucked oysters on the table, / horseradish and shells left on the plate, / empty glasses of beer,
@elise-davis
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The Poetess In The Fields
Oh, there is light in such places: / The galleries of Soho, the catwalks of Milan, / The boardwalks of Blackpool,
@wk-kortas
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by-catch
was i that immature i couldn’t even handle it? / was i that irresponsible i couldn’t even pilot it? / tell me please...was i that juvenile?
@palladia
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And the sun shines again
. / As I count crows / sitting on the clothesline
@Stephank
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713
A Poem About This Wretched White Day Without Green
Beside me on the table lies a small green stem; / This stem once with it carried a lovely botanical gem. / Outside the window yonder is a city caked in snow;
@dh-matthews
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685
What is more gentle?
what is more gentle? / than this pillow of the light? / a life narrowing,
@martin-narrod
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683
Shucked.
conversations with paul are a one / way street, an play in a single act / between himself and a shadow (me):
@broooke
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