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Kissing my fingers - They are long and live as seagulls, Casting foam-tinged wings Along the ocean's salty tongue Hips like hillsides, Rising with the tides Shallow pond-clefts have caught And filled with tears Now dry In yielding folds of midnight flesh And tranquil curves Soari... - Poetry > Free Versethe Moon watches the world far below, cold lights burning out the Stars. soon enough, It knows, the Light will grow as large as the Universe and the dull, dull moon will crumble into Dust....
- Poetry > Free VerseThe birds sing brighter than ever could I have, And brighter still. I am cold In your arms. The sky of late has sagged downwards, In a steady droop, Encroaching on our heads. If you and I are not the most, then what are I and you? Long division separates the darkestness of which we...
- Poetry > Free Versebut gray intangible stretched between our bones and no voice but the birds crying above us: "gone" "gone" "gone"...
- Poetry > Free Verseand having nothing left to give i give you my name. a tiny offering. a lettered nest of baby mice, filling the sweet pillow of your hand. how paltry the curved walls of my miniature labyrinth. and how may my sibilant syllables caress your cheeks with half the tingling, heady waterfall your...
- Poetry > Free Versehis little hand is too small for the candy i try to give him, the tiny, fearful ghost. for a moment, i believe his smile so strongly i fear the chocolate will slip through his fingers....
- Poetry > Free VerseI think, if I may have nothing else, I would like to hang as a coat in your closet - quietly, on my own little hook....
- Poetry > Free Versewhat i love most about myself is as far off as the ocean on my tired tongue eluding my grasping fingertips with the deft ease of years of practice i am a stranger to myself rescuing myself from drowning and drowning nonetheless what i love most i have twisted my mouth around in desperat...
- Poetry > Free VerseI believe the end of the world will not be one year and one month from today despite what the Mayans might have said and I believe that global warming may destroy all hopes that my children's children will one day see a polar bear and I believe that, if I wanted to, I could be...
- Poetry > Free Versemy feet are wet in your oceans your arms bear up my chest (i am treading, treading) the forests 'round my heart blaze autumn-fire, blanket me in leaves and violins breathe in and out among the silent sky-borne birds (and i am treading) but winter paces near now, love, all soft am...
- Poetry > Free Versethe rain reminds me of you now, drops as small as your hands you are gentler now than you have ever been silky, slipping between my grasping fingers time liquefies between us, and i am carried away i am fighting the current, and i am losing there is no way to rescue you anymore ...
- Poetry > Free Verseo say can you see by the moon's tender kiss across the heartbeat bedroom i wait with bated breath hand clutched restless under my pillow my country tis of this little child, curled in blankets, biting her nervous knuckles i know she will come she must come tonight o beautiful f...
- Poetry > Free Verseneither of us understood the words, of this alone I am certain, but we drank them ice-cold with lime (and the night around us, oh the night) we swam like fishes through the darkness with the foreign edificios rising beside us, strange castles filled with everything we cannot say (and the n...
- Poetry > Free VerseI The evening tastes like your skin, Puckered and wrinkled between my teeth My lips so often shrank from your touch – They feared the memory of what they will someday Be. But sometimes, I recall, You felt so full and swelled with love, I’d swear you might float away. The moon overhead...
- Poetry > Free Verse"try not to think of a polar bear" he said "and that's all you'll think about" he was right - my brain stormed with lightning flashes of white, teeth, frozen snow - but now I think I'd rather not-think about that bear than anything else he seems so ...
- Poetry > Free VerseWhen the memory of you has faded To a dim topaz, surrounded in tarnished silver, I will slip you off my fourth finger, And store you away in the back of my jewelry box. So that when our child has grown your smile, your cheekbones, Your dry, sweet skin, And she searches through my necklaces, ...
- Poetry > Free VerseI love you more than my last root canal More than Brussels sprouts and asparagus, More than plugged-up toilets and plumbers’ cracks, More than the C+ I received on my last English paper And more than the uncomfortable pictures my mother takes every Christmas. I love you at least as much as ...
- Poetry > Free VerseInto the bleeding heartland we escape through the burning night The black eroticism of lightning Chasing our tattered skeletons We dodge electric raindrops and skin ourselves on scarecrows Leap waterfalls and hide in aubergine gullies Race over cliffs and under mountainsides Scrape our knees ...
- Poetry > Free Versecomecome (my love) and find me between clouds and cottontails slip between cornstalks (my love) disappearing in a green embrace glide (my love) gently across velvet waves and whipping cream foam and discover (my love) me hidden in your (built brick-by-brick) castle...
- Poetry > Free VerseOnce upon a time There lived a little girl With scarlet ringlets in her hair Who – No, once upon a time An evil witch cast a spell – But once upon a time A handsome prince – The girl grew up; The prince grew old; The witch grew tired; And the dragon lived happily ever...
- Poetry > Free VerseThere was a time in my life When it all would have simply flowed past And I, skipping through the grass with bared foot and ribbons in my hair, Might not even have noticed Raised voices Gunshot words But then I began to wear shoes And the ribbons wore out And I growed all up into a big per...
- Poetry > Free VerseDonning my winter-coated armor, I step out into the searing snowstorm, Eyes blistered by the white. Cold shouldn’t burn, I decide. Why is the winter so unfriendly? It’s not, it’s so lonely, that it reaches out Desperately With icy tendrils searching for warmth, Then dragging a would-be...
- Poetry > Free Verse1. Find a comfortable spot, preferably on the floor, preferably cushioned by pillows and blankets, preferably alone. 2. Seat yourself cross-legged, hands on your thighs. 3. Concentrate on your breathing. 4. Consider the temperature of the room: Is it too hot? Too cold? Fix the thermostat ...
- Poetry > Free Versethis somewhere i have always travelled, farther beyond myself than ever thought was possible;the world unfurls at the slightest touch of your hand here on my onceempty page you fill the chambers of my heart:in winter holes bored their slow worm-way until(along my soul)walls were weak as card...
- Poetry > Free VerseThe grass has grown tall as a tornado around us. Deep beneath it, my memory of you is a shy brown rabbit, Nestled in its close dirt burrow Because it is spring, You whisper ever more loudly in my ears – And I laugh alone at our jokes as loudly As the sound of one mouth kissing I dr...
