Category Archives: Poetry

Sockopalypse

I tried to park my foot in my sock but couldn’t manage the 90-degree bend. So I backed out of that narrow stall and eased in more slowly. Still nope.

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November Hoar

During this seasonal ill, stone stands out in debossed relief, the world having gone chill and soil swelling itself above.

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November

The Peshastin pear have all gone red. Leaves long left, rank upon rank of gray boles hunch their shoulders which bear forests of crimsoned shoots.

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Doing the Math

When division is the objective tensions inevitably multiply. Things no longer seem to add up. Be the one to make a difference.

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Demise of the Double-Breasted Swagger

Fashion failure is not on his menu, last year’s styles de rigueur mortis. He is your je ne sais squat, a haute-mess couture vision, all savoire faux du journée.

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The Downwind Rut

There’s a rose bush up the way a bit but the scent ain’t what gives it away— it’s the downwind rut out front the shed what catches all the breezes blow its way.

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What It’s Like

                                                     one                                                    tine                                                      of                                                    the                                                    fork                                                      at                                                    the                                                 top                                  of        the                                     vulture                                        tree

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FYITF, or Die Stem von Sud Afrika

He’s a rich churl Now don’t try to chide him Teflon on the souls of his shoes

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Subject Lines

Pray for the victim, pray for the perp Pray for the Kingdom to come here on Earth Pray for the Kingdom, the Kingdom, the kingdom to come

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Incompatagonia

Selk’nam mythology tells us that natural phenomena, whether wind, snow, lightning, or earthquake, plus the very elements and each animal, were once human beings.

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