Category: Poem
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This morning at the farms along the road
Twelve wild turkeys on their barnyard tour lumber from the woods
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When he was a little boy … Elliott’s 15th-birthday poem
Every year, our friend Elliott gets a poem for his birthday. Here is this year’s, along with an audio version.
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August Rain
The year has turnedto the round month,the orange one,month of steam and droning bees,time when we first rememberthe end is tumbling near. …
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Un-fragment
rising through layers of dream / light / shadow mattress body blanket groping for the fragments strewn by night across the landscape of my bed pulling thread by thread knitting myself together as day breaks ~~~
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Sadness, I instruct you
For my dear friend And now, sadness, I instruct you to be still. Let these bones rest. Marrow pale and depleted by memory and forgiveness, they are weary and cannot stand your shaking. Let the exhausted heart encased in this bombarded cage beneath my skin jarred by your gnashing and…
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Five Reasons to Love the Long Nights of Winter
Originally posted on Writing Spaces: After a bright afternoon’s quickening light To be cradled by dusk, Its slowly sit-down darkening To contemplate the softening outline of the old cat Curled warm on your grey-trousered lap To watch the women and men with briefcases and backpacks Walk from the bus toward…
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