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Pox-marked Identical Twin

Pox-marked Identical Twin Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem My heart is like the moon, the cratered sphere, The fissured moon so badly damaged that It wanders looking for itself both there and here In...

Marriage Carried On in a Morgue

Marriage Carried On in a Morgue Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Sometimes you feel that you are like corpse A necrophiliac ignores.  He mounts You more as if it were his duty, warps The meaning of the...

The French Oscar Wilde

The French Oscar Wilde Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His soul is cancer’s breath, gray groaning, screams Of falsity.  His sleeping slickened snores Of evil fill the room like lava streams In hell, an...

Presiding Higher than Priesthood

Presiding Higher than Priesthood Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you could be a purple pinion’s prayer, What words and incantations would you sing, What syllables would lift you into air Beyond — where...

Blinded Montesquiou

Blinded Montesquiou The darkness on the tomb of Montesquiou And next to it, abated by the sky Of clouds of white and by the dome of blue, Is emphasized with dirt and algae by It and upon it.  Dirtiness is shrill Upon the grave . . . and not to mention weeds Would be...

Beauties and the Beasts

Beauties and the Beasts Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Jean-Paul Belmondo, Barbra Streisand, such As these hold up the hope that ugly folk Can be attractive, sexy just as much As Doris Day and Rock.  An...