A Familiar Change
Your words come in start and stop formation
Around my ears and I
Can bringmyself to
Tears knowing that you
Won't touch my arm or
Smile
I'mfeeling small but I can't hide
Behind the coat rack because
I've grown pastfour feet and five inches and
You won't say ...
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A Girl with No Name
Emptiness is your thick heart-shaped box with no opening,
I've been domesticated in alocked house with no key,
Thrown away, trashed, restored, adorned and thrownaway again.
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A Separate Paradise
Hidden
In the folds of the rounded mountains,
Laughing children embark
Ontheir trail of green memories and yellow stems
Enclosed in gold rays andbutter breezes,
Infused with the mazes of oranges and pineapples
Thecherubs skip and skidaddle
Free among the sweet ...
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Beef Noodles
I never chew just swallow
It's bad luck if you do.
Swimming in a porcelainpool
Blue and white trees; ancient pagodas
A sauna of steam rolls upand around
Asian hills shaded like curlicues
Hold the deep roots ofintricate bonsais
I inhale the hot ancient ...
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Bella Hermanita
I look at my sister now
At pre-torn jeans and crushed sneakers
Bronzed,eye-lined and glittering
And I think,
Why did she become what I couldnot?
How?
At the center of her solar system
She is secretlyalone
Hysterically laughing and falling down the ...
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Blue, Silent Circles
when I sit with you
in this quiet, small-town restaurant
and we begintalking
about great poets come and gone,
I examine my own crumb ofhistory.
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Cold
The winter cold, a death, but
Circles full, where there is anend
Must be a new beginning
I watch thetrees,
Reincarnated,
Breathing leaves once again.
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Crosses Made from Wood and Sinew
Sometimes I wish that maybe I could
Stumble upon burial grounds that have not felt theheel of a broken-in boot
Sink into its soft ground, disturbing the dirt just abit,
And that I would pull crayons and wax paper
From my pockets, to makegrave rubbings
With these tools that ...
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Good-Night Sadness
Bluish-blackhorizons
bruise the fiery pink of a
setting sun.
The soft motion of my
quivering lips
tickles her colorless cheek.
Shadows cradle hertear-flooded
gaze and I sip her pain
like strawberry liquor.
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Hope's Enigma
Leaves fall softly on the lake
Serenity ripples in theirwake.
One ripple, one beat upon my heart
As laughter echoes in thedark.
While children cry and mothers soothe
And light reveals the morning'struth.
As hope is cloaked in darkness' sorrow,
So do I await tomorrow.
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In a Single Thought
On the morning peace had no place in the world,
A soldier was born.
He volunteered an infinityof misplaced memories,
Too graphic and real to remember,
All for thefreedom we know today as the United States.
He survived these war morningswithout flinching.
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Mama is a Beautiful Flower
When she comes skipping
Through the hallway
She waters us,
Like growingflowers.
And we thank her for being there.
She brings sunlight to ourlives.
And turns out our sadness
When it rains.
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Metaphor
I'm a candy in sugar-coated syllables
A dove, an unexplored house
A lilystrolling on glass slippers
Oh red cherry, white, blushing veils
This peachis ripe with sweet juices
Will my prince save me from this tower
I'm aunicorn, a Diana, a waxing moon
I've smelt the sweet ...
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Morning
Fivea.m. finds me again.
Saturated darkness
An alarm's tuneless notes ring inthe air
Every part of me wants to calm its annoying wail,
I'm afraidwithout its sound.
Whispers and secrets sometimes awaken mysilence.
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Payment for the Morning
Lying in a field of sand
Near a small straw hut
Pickingpetals off flowers
Blooming into dragonflies
Peaceful evening, littlelight
Sun falling low
Just like my heart
Tears stream down, turn tofish
Swimming across my shoulders
I pour out my bowl of fish
And sell ...
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Rain
Drops of water
As big as grapes
Land on my head
Cooling my face
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Reality Throught the Eyes of Two Adolescents
Observe:
One face:
There are little flower cups on one land,
Dripping with tintedscents and rich nectar,
Bees farming the ripe wine of Apollo,
Alive, calmwaters bearing no specter.
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Route 513
In central Jersey on Rt 513
snow and salting trucks
disruptthe kids
you baby-sit
in the seat behind you
darkness lies straightahead
like a giant black hole waiting to engulf you
and you want tocry
It's so horrifying
you hate the sharp taunting curves
placed ...
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Shine
Yesterday I was standing in the kitchen,
happened to look outthe window
at the Moon.
It was bathing
half full of the murkyblackness,
casting a serious expression down at me.
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Side Street Brains
followmy fingers
home. just lie there
and sing to yourself
I'd love to knowyour brain's
back roads.
if only my fingers were longer,
they'reshort stubs that
rarely venture off Main Street.
they look down your darkalleys
but stay safe in the well-lit areas.
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Something
Iam
incapable
of
escapable
thought,
trapped betweenthoughts
and rocks
and decisions
making me nauseated
and then I ampuking up
all my could be's
and maybe's
and never was's
because theywere gnawing
at my insides
and taking up too much space.
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Spider Webs
Sometimes I go
When no one knows,
To a quiet place in mymind
Where I can caress my thoughts
To the melody of a lake'sripple
Where a single thought
Is as fragile and complex
As spiderwebs
Where wind tells a story
And sings in the night
With ...
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Summer
Was so cold last night
Frost covered the ground
So I tiptoedoutside,
Shivered but didn't turn around.
I stood there waiting forsummer,
For steaming air so sweet
I dreamed of warmth and sun
But thecoldness bit my feet.
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The Best Day
Oneday I was walking down a trail, when I fell
off a cliff and down into a ravine.The wounds are
no longer visible, the pain is held inside, and
though I standupright, every time I see her, I fall
head over heels all over again.
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The Dawn of Spring
Tips of life burst through
The frozen earth
Melodies ofbliss
Integrating with
The crunch of snow
Colors replace white
As thedelicate geraniums bloom
Unfolding the early morning light
Anduncovering
The dawn of spring
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Throw Hearts
Four identical wooden chairs
around a matching square table.
The flowers on thewall
are choked by
the scent of smoke
floating in the empty space.
Aperfect specimen
sits across from me.
Older versions of himself
areplaced on either side.
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Untitled
The TV stays off
It isnot broken
I know because
I check once in a while
But I never leave iton
For more than a second
The radio is silent
It can stillblare
If I want it to
I do once in a while
But I don't listen to thestations
For more than a ...
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Sun-bronzed skin of brambles
dress of gentle greenfoliage
rambling raspberry temptress.
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Untitled
Order another dessert
peach sherbet melts
with green frothy wraps
ofchitter-fried butter batter
in Michigan eateries
fuzzy soft like ediblevelvet
crushed to pulpy juices
staining teeth and sleeves
like clothnapkins in a closet dispenser
with metal sides ...
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