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Heart of the Problem
Things get stuck in my mind, dates, places, trivia. It was useful as a student, less so as a husband. Never forgot an anniversary or a birthday or a lie. Every time she said “no”, I heard “never”. I wish … Continue reading
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Fraiku: That Song
Drops me through a trapdoor onto a musty pile of memories— all that’s left of you
My Nepenthe
Dying from thirst and memoryshe offers me a smilea cool smooth cyan liquidin a clear goblet Fascinating it dances with lighttwirls in my hand relaxinga stubborn sorrow falling awaylike clothes in sweltering summer Into her glittering pools I diveto drown … Continue reading
Happy Mudlark
Happy Mudlark“A mudlark is someone who scavenges in river mud for items of value…” Tramp through the mudthe best job evermy boss is the tide I rediscover what’s forgottenlike this forty year old class ringthrown by an angry girlfriendafter she … Continue reading
The Opposite of the Fear of Falling
The Opposite of the Fear of Falling Memories like sparkling tethersbind me to my boyhood homemy first date with each wifemy car parked in the west lot With the merest scent of cut grassI’m tugged back to the side yardplaying … Continue reading
Three Bottles
For today’s prompt from Robert Lee Brewer’s Write Better Poetry blog, write a poem inspired only by stimulus from where you’re sitting (or standing, if you write will standing). In the past, I’ve written poems about pencils, characters in books … Continue reading
Boy in a Hospital
Boy in a Hospital I woke up empty—left eye swollen shutwhere they pulledout my memory A lady sits at my bedsideholding my handher eyes meltingunder harsh fluorescents Who is she— who am Ino longer a son or brotherI am alone … Continue reading