"Home Movies"
Coupled, link and manacle, forged from heat and stone, House teetering on a bed of crumbling sand stone.
Intertwined, sweating in the hammock, smelling grass… For years now that lawn a lot, paved with scree and stone.
Nesting in the Christmas wrap, last bits of credit, The [...]

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[yes, I broke my own rules twice]
"Thought Experiment"
Sealed inside a soundproof room without doors or windows, an occupant is unable to distinguish between being dangled from a crane above earth or towed through deep space at a constant acceleration [...]

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[as agreed-- why, oh why did I agree-- a villanelle. Of sorts.]
“Pioneer”
The dusty light, cold space, and stars,
mark how little we’ve progressed,
mocking what we thought was ours.
Now just ash where once were towers,
the city fades while the pilot nods, chin to chest
beneath dusty light, cold space, and stars.
The sea shakes three times, the village scoured
and [...]

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“What the Man Sleeping in the Bus Stop Hut Told Me After Waking Up and Lighting a Cigarette”
It’s all fire, you ever noticed that?
There are fires burning deep in the earth
surviving on ancient seams and gas pockets,
burning since before his back was bent,
when his hair was the color of coal.
The fire started when a shaft [...]

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Peeling skin in the uranium shower
Get clean, Mr. Clean
Find the handle hanging
from the sun, a trap door
one small supernova
this side of birth.
The tattoo on your forearm
E = MC^2 = Last Year’s Love
sleep you can’t clear from your eyes
one penny, two penny, four,
a chessboard eight squares squared
all queens with no divisor,
just the redshift of acceleration
beyond my [...]

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In my dreams he’s still an infant. I’m cradling him in my arm. His eyes are open, but he fits on my forearm. My palm cradles his head, my fingers easily spanning ear-to-ear. He sees me. I put my hand over his mouth and nose and he doesn’t blink. I can feel his heart pounding, [...]

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“Re-Entry”
At dusk the plane’s contrail
slits the sky vertically
in the failing light.
It could be a plummeting,
oxygen masks swinging
from lamped gibbets:
fasten your seat belt,
smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
On the radio a report:
the first Chinese astronaut
has just returned safely,
his sizzling capsule plucked
still steaming from the sea
smelling impossibly of
blossoms and river clay.
His first breathless words:
he has finally seen [...]

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Tell a story enough or intensely enough  and it becomes real, or indistinguishable from truth, if there’s a difference. That’s the transitive property: If a = b and b = c then b and c must [...]

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a poem a day, any length, any form, any subject… for 30 days
prompts are OK (tonight I’m using one of Robert Lee Brewer’s prompts)
15 minutes allowed per poem from the moment pen first touches paper
no explanations/no excuses
haiku and limericks don’t count unless they are really good

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Your husband two years home from the forests in Germany drinks downstairs
over there when the guns were quiet he pictured the soft hairs on your thigh [...]

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Getting down on my knees reminds me of movies where the bad guy makes the good guy kneel for the bullet in the head the contrived coup de grâce and it’s true the one time [...]

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Feeling a need to get out of a writing rut that is laying waste to some part of my life (and envious of all those photography nuts with their 366 photos projects), I’m starting my own daily poem project that is like National Poetry Writing Month. Kind Of. The rules for my KindOfNaPoWriMo are:

a poem [...]

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