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Chapel
Find something blue She’ll be all doe eyes Weeping deer crowns Chestnut deep In oversized gown ❧ She trips over the long hem Over glass and black car shell Over gnarled, overturned tree Forbidden jump rope giggles Wild rabbit witnesses Stop at the bough alter In bare feet and mud smudged knees ❧ Makeshift plank […]
North and Swallow
The way the wisteria crawl the canopy And drape down limp, a stretched-out coil It strikes me as a father’s hand (I feel as if I’ve been here once) ❧ If the moon snuffs out And smoke ribbons down (The more I stare, the more it unsheathes) I’ll look toward the other door But branch-hung […]
Terrycloth Dog
In a snapshot mother framed There’s that sweet old toy from our childhood Plastic pellet-filled, floppy eared dog of white terrycloth Cotton-head drooping from her hand, by the paws Torn open a multitude of times but always stitched back up Sometimes opened at the same place, those stitches create the weakest spots ❧ If you […]
‘Nother Dumb Corona poem
Humans evergreen and hibernating Enclammed in concave spinal cords, eating Hunched over hot-white blasting computer screens Mirrored like iridescent, plastic beetle wings ❧ These bug shells lined up, dried out on the window sill The common house spider, butterfly, silverfish Clawed up in static pose and pawed at by kittens Leg raised muscles cry atrophy— […]
Rabbit Vultures
In the garden There’s forever clover The hutch is still No sawdust raining An empty house No kicking, thudding No bundling of bedding No sneeze- or chew of weeds An empty house With the door open ❧ Cloaked starlings sail In the black bloated sky Him palming tarot cards His false face armed As crooked […]
Guts
Evils inherent That darken doorways at 2am That kept kids up at bedtime Begged the nightlight til age 10 ❧ Evils inherent Bury the cemeteries in earnest Cut our diamonds routinely Unscrew sharpeners Berry blood beading Resting cleanly on the surface Evils inherent Shackle our ability To see what you see while cloud gazing Shackle […]
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