Read Write Poem
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Animal Empathy ~ The Empathy Animal
Animal Empathy an animal antiphon assimilated aborigines we are Antaeus earth our arboretum it is not a matter of thinking it begins here: we band together, a braid of betrothal and betrayal the human biography curators of creation we cannot continue to consume without consequence sinking deep into demise we must listen, we must… Continue reading
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Make the Woman
Let me put on this blazer with brooch, pull back my hair into a tightknot. There. Will that do? Perhaps you’d prefer this red silk dress bare legs and spiked heels or this flowery innocent shirtwaist? No? This straplesstube, then you can see the ring in my navel. Pull. You long for leather and high… Continue reading
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what equals metaphor plus math?
numbers I numbers are magicas everyone knows numbers of fingersand numbers of toes one is a number as is two, as is threebig’s not a number and neither is wee but you can give them a number if you measure them close you can give them a number for lesser or most red’s not a… Continue reading
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Ephemeral Sonnet
We write on water, we poets. Most of us. Some write on sand, brief calligraphyfor seagulls, shore-birds and the slow inev-itable tide. A few write to stain the sea, so intense, the color of their ink salts the words of their inheritors years beyond their own decline. It’s not their fault that rules and ideologies… Continue reading
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Coming to Grief
I walk with you again, this crowded gravel path. We pass beneath dying elms, fire maples, thick oaks. Soon bats will rise up, above the trees. My hair clings to my skull in the rain. I hear the river moving stones in its bed. The rain stops. Now, spots of sun, the steady dripping from… Continue reading
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