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Jason’s Daddy
The sun was just beginning to push through the clouds that draped over the Greyhound Bus Terminal on the corner of Mission and First in Downtown Los. Angeles when the six o’clock bus screeched to a halt. It was nearly half an hour late when it pulled into Gate 2, and the line of passengers…
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Artificial Sonnets
III. The poet stared at the blank screen and sighed:Procrastination is my only skill.His office – sparse, clean, pale – made him feel ill.Employment seemed to eat at his inside.He didn’t know what fate may yet befall himBut knew he must deliver on the hype,So reached out to the keyboard set before him,Stretched out his…
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Pi Mysterium
… and the Mathematician Who Made Me Believe “It simply goes on forever.”I am not convinced.Wary of things immeasurable,Such as love, infinity,Creator, existence. Suppose you divideForever by four,Now, forever is a fraction;Leaping, and then divingToward no definitive action. And, what did Stonehenge know of greek? – Her transcendental rock, mineral-stackedIn sly mockery,Asking that we compareHoly…
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Counting Expectations
Her floral hands weptwhile holding the stillborntheir only chanceand the fatherwith his whiskeybreathsitting in the smokehe madewhile staring at the wallpaying no attentionto her wailsto her achesto her painhe just drank Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.
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Free Solo in Seattle
I’m not sure how Tom Hanks and Free Solo and poetry and golf and the truth somehow all relate to my divorce, but they definitely all crash around my mind, elbowing each other for more room and, hopefully, top billing in my sad, sad play. Maybe that’s why my eventual expiration date on my life…
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A Christmas Carol (Stave Five)
Over the span of five posts, I have been looking at Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a wonderful story about the dramatic process to effect one man’s complete change of heart. Dickens arranged the novella into five chapters or staves, as he labeled them. “Stave” has its roots in the word “staff,” as in a…
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Christmas Grave
Sara found the dead dog another fifty feet from the footprints in the fresh six inches of snow. She froze. Eggnog yellow beams shone from the Ford Focus, the slow drip of crimson made bloody breaks across the brightness of the beams that illuminated the dog, its brindle body buried in a shallow blanket of…
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A Christmas Carol (Stave Four)
Over the span of five posts, I am looking at Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a wonderful story about the dramatic process to effect one man’s complete change of heart. Dickens arranged the novella into five chapters or staves, as he labeled them. “Stave” has its roots in the word “staff,” as in a musical…
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Artificial Sonnets
II. “A poet. You’re the first I’ve interviewed,”The woman said behind her shiny desk.“You show a certain zealous attitude,And your approach is novel, I confess.They value that in this place, so maybeYou could outline any experienceYou feel would make the promised differenceYou like to claim.” She gestured to him. “Please.” The poet coughed into his…
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Sounds of Cotton
Mornings are roughwhen throwing up panicand beating myself down with whatever is closest and as alwaysit’s usually me Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.
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A Christmas Carol (Stave Three)
Over the span of five posts, I am looking at Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a wonderful story about the dramatic process to effect one man’s complete change of heart. Dickens arranged the novella into five chapters or staves, as he labeled them. “Stave” has its roots in the word “staff,” as in a musical…
