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TRUTH: The Notice Board Was Blank Today, as Blank as Death

TRUTH: The Notice Board Was Blank Today, as Blank as Death Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I passed again that notice board today, The one displaying clever Christian quips That used to make me want to...

Orlando Sanford International Airport

Orlando Sanford International Airport Not just the eyes, but lashes too:  the young One there behind the check-in desk has hearts- Stopping eyes and lashes, black, highly strung Sublimity of beauty to launch hard parts Of anyone who yearns for grace, launched to...

Light Killing Light

     Light Killing Light The Milky Way is one prolonged hot sigh Of birth and life and dying.  Whites and blues And yellows, splayed across an iron sky, Explode, implode, imbibe each other, fuse Their destinies together, cannibals Of cousins who mistakenly drift near,...

Years of Daydreams while Far Away Withered

Years of Daydreams while Far Away Withered How plants quite disappear when they have lost Their petals and perfume is like the way You faded from my life.  As if a frost, A full and lengthy one, attacked in May, You devastated beauty with your drugs And drink.  I came...

Inhalers

             Inhalers Created for Chuck one day before the anniversary of his birth. “When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the tree with the lights in it.” It was for this tree I searched through the...