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The Grasshoppers of a Mind
Thoughts like grasshoppers dance in a fallow field, never resting in one spot long enough to feed. I try to shepherd them and fail. My volition gusting in vain as some jump from my hair and others fly into my … Continue reading
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Tagged glopowrimo, grasshopper, meditation, napowrimo, poem, Poem-A-Day, thought
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Lunar Eclipse
We cast a long shadow. Long enough to engulf our daughter moon who looks like a cratered white chocolate cookie full in the sky until a circular bite invades an edge and she’s consumed. Then she turns to blood but … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, eclipse, glopowrimo, moon, napowrimo, poem, Poem-A-Day
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In the Open Sea
We live on an alien planetbeautiful and creepydangerous and hopefuliridescent inhabitantsluring mates or dinnergiant eyes that almost neverenjoy even the dimmest lightall begging to be touched But we’re not that differentaren’t you and I just bags of watersurrounding a tummywandering … Continue reading
Sonnet on Sneezing
When my ex would sneezeshe’d bring her delicate handup to her nose, turn to one side,spasm and toot— as though a unicornhad just farted a rainbow. For me, the pressure buildsbelow my brain then my face crumples,neck pulls back to … Continue reading
My Luscious Long Hair
It falls out in the autumn leaving me bald as a stump but by April, golden green buds are ready to blossom. Come summer my hair will be long, brushing the river’s edge, and a calm green to rival the … Continue reading
How to Dig a Hole
Best after a good rainwhen the earth is softand odors are amplified Follow your nose to an interesting spotthen loosen the soil with your clawsto get through the top layer of grass Throw the dirt with your pawsbetween your legs … Continue reading
How many do I love thee? Let me count the ways:
(for all the nerdy girls) I love thee more than the number of blossoms on the all azaleas in my front yard. More than the petals, more even than the pollen grains on all the stamens on all the flowers … Continue reading
Her Countenance
Her Countenancefor Cassa Bassa I was close to calling a close to my career not content with the content I was composing then from a cumulus cloud (not cirrus!) she came. Caring and clever, comely and creative, she coaxes another … Continue reading
Scene from the Life of Drunken Poet
Take a breath before taking the shot that way you won’t smell the liquor and it won’t taste as bad at least that’s what I’ve heard as I twirl my wine and smirk at my companion with her tiny glass. … Continue reading
A Young Poet in Lytle Creek
Wearing hip waders for the first and only time, I walked in Lytle Creek. I’d been in before by falling but this was intentional. My best friend and I carried fishing poles. We didn’t catch anything. I don’t even remember … Continue reading
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 