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Re: This is how you start a poem
16 Thirteen Ways of Eating Fruit with Friends I You hand me a clementine. There is a little sticker that I peel off and place on your hand. II We ...
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15 I Write My Little Poems, You_____________________. I listen to podcasts while I do the dishes, you _____________________. I sing songs in the shower and hope the neighbors don't mind, ...
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14 Diddle for Dinner Yesterday the cow jumped over the moon. Today it landed: ground beef.
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13 Returning This poem is telling me it is a privilege to return to where you were born. Many never leave, and so can never return, eyes growing soft, the ...
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12 Dictations I’m walking through a field of flowers I pick a dandelion. I’m with my brother catching bugs. I’m with my mother, giving hugs and asking when we’ll go ...
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11 Smoke for Trout (spoiled for language) Don’t spill, Silver Satin’ll take the paint off a ship but I’m making pickled pike in little jars and it don’t matter if ...
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Re: deluge
I love the strong images at the heart of such tiny poems. The brevity makes them feel vital and desperate, like the last scraps of some lost civilization, if that ...
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Re: anatomy of a body that will soon be forgotten
I'm so intrigued by the promise of a pictochat poem! What a retro medium now!
Apr 10, 2023 -
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10 I Will Write You Only Sonnets I will write you only sonnets, sonnets till you’re sick of rhyming. I will write you bouquets of sentimental love songs, it’s what ...
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9 The World Is Full of Apricot Jam (using this in submissions)
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Re: April Madness 2023
Bitter Pear
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8 Anticipation It’s in the flyers advertising samba classes, puppies, estate sales. It’s in grease-smeared menus at roadside diners. It’s sitting on the first stair, written on the first dollar,
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7 Pastoral From/After/With/For Mustafa Kör It is February and we have defeated the wolves that broke our mothers. There are forty aurorae, all green. We tore Arcadia down and you're ...
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6 Times You Couldn't Stop Laughing On the way to urgent care, after you caught a fish the size of your forearm. After dehooking, it jerked, smacking your eyebrow with ...
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5 Chicken Spin Triolet around the yard the chickens spin like jerky, seed-fed, drunken men their graceless dancing makes me grin around the clock the chickens spin when nighttime comes ...
Apr 4, 2023