Tag: love poem
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A Soliloquy for Dead-Ends
A tree branch brandishes its silhouette And hides the stucco pattern, flourishing Across the wall. A leaf trembles in the wind. Pauses. Before its stem snaps and lets go Of the leaf. Impulses obligate an outstretched hand To snatch the leaf from wind patterns. Fingers grasp the loose foliage And dollar bills within the same […]
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sunflower shade
for: C.C. Sunflower plots, complicit in rows Deem Soft Instructions To clean Their Petals. Human showers imitate rainfall. Recognizing nature’s will As love. Reflections hide details In the infrastructure. By staging the process For belief. Organic: Drop. Touch. Breaks. Plastic: Drop. Touch. Breaks. Deception beguiles the labored habit, Assuming, “This worked before Why not try […]
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History Restricts What Time Gives (and love too)
1. A railing design, wracked in nuance, habituates purpose to normalize the human lean. A bird perches on the pole, uses it as a stage to croon and seduce potential lovers. An ant wanders out of rank and file, begins to climb up the rod in honor of the Hive, to service the Queen. It […]
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Mourning Doves Alive Again
Halitosis afflicts the discussion Two tones Distributed as one. Hang-nail dangles from their pinky Holds court AMONG the coffee cup. Back braced against A Cotton sealed spine. They met with pigeons in mind. Dirty birds. Dirty words. Clustered in flocks and folds. Inside the hotel room Secrets assume a closed fist. Love taps begin Lust […]
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artificial sweetener
Artificial sweetener packets decorated the car’s floor-mats. Their wet shoes made them martyrs. A few sprinkles escaped, Separated and near change, Butterfly wings dried And saved their disintegration For the last trip home. Some moments belong in paper-bags. It’s all relative To the drop off, stepping out, Putting rehearsal to use and knowing Lives which […]
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…just stay home
A language exchange, terses verbal onslaught, Translates An uncomfortable description: “Read.” Curled toes bargain with the heartbeat, pace alone Comforts the options Diagnosed through an inquiry, anxiety insisted upon. Begins the comparison Against personal actions, to those performed By others. ‘If this meant that…’ ‘I did this before…’ ‘It must mean that…’ Infant interactions, defined […]
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Sad Person Qualifications
Top floor apartments shelter stair noises, no longer content belonging to levels, they die where brick and stucco meet the morning fog. But the hollow footsteps compete for space within the soundscape, challenging my neighbors, arguing in Spanish, deaf translations to my English trained brain, it’s the tone I recognize and door slams and whimpering, […]
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And Of Course She Ignores Your Dumbass
Design the question to Alleviate a cellphone twitch. Distinguishing a text From an email. And I’ll never bother her Again. Of course I lie, In operation of survival. To make it hurt less. Swallowing pride And it tastes like cracked glass. Reflection fractured, Compensation For when I’m acting up. Darling. Darling. Darling. Repetition creates comfort, […]
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