relationships
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you respond to what wasn’t said, then take my wordsand turn them into weapons, complete with a silencer, hear them without listening, then quickly respond to what you thought was meant, with fast words shotout like bullets in defense of what wasn’t the intent.Words can be clumsy attempts at expressions of feelings; even if we speak Read more
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a living grandfather for my children, a figure more in proportion, curly auburn hair that could grow waist length, an early master’s degree in poetry, a fifth or tenth or twentieth anniversary, a way to eradicate the impact some Read more
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He wakes to find the ivory towerhe’d sealed himself into some time agonow held him captive, his spouse the prison guard, not the perfect princess she had been. While staring out the window one dark night,he sees a bird across the way singingand calls it with a promise of his love,in return for something he’s Read more
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After three days I became worried, worried that my phone was not out of order, that I’d left it plugged in. I worried that something tragic thing hadn’t happened to a member of your family, that you weren’t lying dead next to your phone I worried that your memory was fine, that you weren’t lost Read more
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You found the tattered bird’s tenacity so amazing and uplifting you could not resist reaching out a hand to offer unannounced and unexpected a tender scrap of your admiration. The startled thing reacted by shrieking back at you, then flying away and landing on a nearby branch where it kept on screeching until you backed Read more
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he left on tiptoe feetcame with noise of laughing friend-voices, bursts of orange-red-yellowsunlight, slap-cracking screen doorsleft once, returned and left andcame back again,muffled in velvet Paisleylike soft confusion,he went.try to tell him, just try,it’s not the leaving that hurts,it’s the continual return,coming back and being had,of sand once white now strewn withentwined arms and legs Read more
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Freeverse with some semi-rhymes If you find yourself frequently talking to others about somebody else, about something they’ve often or recently said or done, rolling your eyes as you describe how they overreact or are too sensitive, then go into detail as you tell of some incident that had happened between the two of you as you Read more
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I’d rather show you my cartoons than read my outloud poetry in the same room. If we could read our poetry to each other over the phone maybe my uncertainty wouldn’t show. (you might suspect it in the waning of my voice, but I could always say it’s because we have a bad connection. Read more
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There once was a man who said I’d chased him away, with words of affection spoken in too harsh a tone. This may have been true, or he may have missed something in the translation. I wish I’d loved him so much I’d have missed him when he was gone, or lost or dead and Read more
Words from Inside My Head 