mother bird told me to go I was kicked out of my house when I was 14truth is I waskicked out of her heart long before that she wouldn’t answer any questionsor let me leave without conditionsthat made renditional recall a somethingwithout believi…
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this is what the words are wings just waiting for me outside the glass knives to petal garland past where butterflies and beaks clutch pearls and lace the wind stipple slow downs begin enough to rest and turn the e…
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the ghost of a rosein the neighborhoodof treesspread dreamt full fingeredI outstretch fora blind morelike a loose garmentslung or hungto whatever corner of skin and boneI canquietlyquite quicklystick tosilencehand-waitsfor every clasp-returnof a l…
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thoughts, posting a poem a day better to lens the daytime at night bright light fright plight is the world whirling whorls here come the curl wavesthe reeds all rifled with eggshidden in one basket divide the sea tide rides the water from where the ani…
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Pan said to waitbefore She camestart writing nearthat big tree hung with bark blossom careenfanning hangs of genitaliaeach branch a little treea diorama that sees infinity in small scale growth factorssky reaching blue&nbs…
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as I would look out at the nightride her Moonarmrest callto Junean overstuffedvelvet covered chairdare me past each bare threshold open my heart a window againlet spill curtain symphonieswear alleyways on skinned pleasinggetting through things li…
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chained to mountain viewsor the poems that spill sidewaysand the poems that fill ridden daysthese are the words that a soul’s geometryconnects the dots withhandfuls of carvebleeding a sieveof blossomed tomorrowswith the swill thirst of morethe crawl bu…
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Ticket Please She brought too much drama, even for the man for whom all the world’s a stage. He was happier now as the usher, standing by the exit. Lights down, curtain up. All the rest is darkness. © 2012 Joseph Hesch
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Divorcing My Father, at 8 on the George Washington Bridge at rush hour you handed me a manila folder then returned to putting your lipstick on my last name was written first in black VS and your last name in red as we approached the bumper of a yellow cab dirty with dents and scratches
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WASABI!!! An ode to a finely ground root my chopstick slices down through the perfectly squeezed flower of electric lime green goo severing just enough of that finely ground root to completely coat the surface of my avocado sushi roll. with heightened anticipation I pop the morsel wholly into my mouth and await the burning
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Losing Kurt at 13 On February 20th I wrote him a love letter for his birth day come find me in the north east ride your mothers ship from Seattle and poke your love heart out to mine let’s make babies or a mess that someone else is bound to write about when we are
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