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Music of the Contours

            Music of the Contours Modern poetry  modern verse contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem If you view this on your phone, view it in landscape mode or the unique formatting will be lost. The way that curls are lovelier than...

Quandary and Sang Froid

Quandary and Sang Froid           Would you prefer to have your face or name Remembered?  Hair might peek out from your brim (Cloth, felt, or fur).  These strands might be your claim To be recalled.  When you are on the rim Of death, will you want others to recall...

Certainty and Uncertainty

Certainty and Uncertainty “Avoid it.” “Help me.” “Lift a little. Come And help me.” “Take the chance.”  “Be good with me.” “Be better.”  “We are better than this.”  “Some.” “No, you are.”  “You have understood with me.” “Fulfill your mission.”  “In the world.”  “Our...

“From Thy Dead Lips”

      “From Thy Dead Lips” There’s just a hollowness that has your smell Around it—like an aura of the sins We never did together.  This shell, Its fan form, waits, on shores where death begins (If death can righteously be said to mark A start).  The light around this...