Piano Quintet Petals aeronautics rumpling through keys, scorch score Quintet flew. * Vivify I’m going to vivify your lips Allusions, the French kiss Strum your violin strings In a Tenor…
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The most comfortable I have ever been In Black skin, Is lost in Sugar Hill Catching the 3 train to Brooklyn. When the doors close, I’m in an all but…
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Tender is the administration of night (for the Dutch poet Joop Bersee) I am Pompeii. There is a map in my hands. I unearth ancient scrolls. Better the devil you…
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⌘ Bluebirds Renting the Squash Studio A storm approaches dark energy bursting rumbling toward, I sit outside in my bathrobe and wait for the bluebirds to return to their new house,…
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nothin like being lonely at the gay club, and dancing anyway so alive so alive so alive, and I can feel all the ways I’m dying. but I dance dance…
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3 Poems from Benjamin Aleshire BENJAMIN ALESHIRE travels the world as a poet-for-hire, composing poems for strangers on a manual typewriter. His work has been featured in The Times UK, El…
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Our eight-year old had the flu last week, when it snowed almost two inches, which was almost enough for our snow removal service to kick in. I’d insisted to you…
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* * * There was a poem waiting in the dead bird on my car. I did not want to know it, did not want to know that death, couldn’t…
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“If, and only if you’re lucky enough to get me, I’ll need the biggest stage ever built here.” “Isn’t this huge enough?” the gate-keeper enquired. “It’s obvious you know nothing…
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i. Dear Doctor— Each morning I unlatch the window to shout the miser magpies from their perch, the sill dips a bit in the clutch of my palm and I…
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The Northern Cardinal is our state bird here in Kentucky, as well as seven other states. It was also a frequent subject of my late grandfather’s paintings. Common folklore, is…
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Problem Solver, People Person, Attention to Detail At last, I am the everyone you’ve been hoping for, the perfect solution of absence and energy necessary for the job. I recognize…
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Silver slivers float with the crows. Black beak opens and delivers shivers as it glistens in my fingers. Bird show me how to build my nest. Frail feathers caked…
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a leafless branch curves when a second bird lands following the first of the calendar year I make no resolution to transform you can’t know how you are in fact…