Tag: love
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midwest dandelions among gold
An empty mop bucket, tucked in the corner emitted The scent of Bleach cut with water. The concoction left a sticky residue Over the surfaces it was cleaned with. My shoes suctioned to the adhesive, squeaked in chorus With other travelers, Inside the truck-stop. I surveyed the pipes Stationed above the urinal. Green […]
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reflections before me
(ordinary) My Reflection strains against the television’s darkness. Unfocused vision formulates flecks of light, jittering beside the right corner and in the center I appear. Polka dots distinguish themselves as eye-sockets, flesh tones arrange dollops of cream cheeks to break the quasi shadows, visible on screen and nowhere else. In the background another face appears. […]
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Illusions in Reality. Art, Love and Caffeine
Cupid’s head, decapitated, set in stone, Mounted as The Fountain-head, spits A Stream of water, Which arches and frames, Park grass Overlapping the horizon, Adorned with picnic tables, Shelters, willow trees And The occasional dandelion. * * Black specks leap In the distance, additional focus Transcribes taxonomy Adjusts their shapes and adds fur, Whiskers, bushy […]
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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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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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Death to the Cash Cow
Crucifix secured to string, dangled from Aseop’s neck, removed and left on his end table, next to his rocking chair and settling in to teeter, he placed a cold soda inside the string spiral. Aluminum can adjusted to different temperatures, perspired and left a ring of moisture behind as Aseop lifted the soda, took a […]
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Hot Take: Falling in Love
Apprehending the tonal qualities of slumbering roots Mapping designations for growth, Displayed in the silent drift of pollen Taking to Icarus’ Down- Fall. Stepping out of his house, Keeping hands occupied By making shadow puppets for entertainment: broadcasted: in earnest To the stage of Noon And the basement shows of beyond workday acquittal. […]
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Dante’s Guided Inferno Tours. ONLY $10.99!!!
Dante shot an echo, detailed a composition of natural noise to compare against the cold air and sulfur stench, perfuming his surroundings. But without a standard from which to build experienced recognition his brain abandoned memories and in its place deciphered from what he’d read off the internet to mesh the details and give the […]
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