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  To Vodka

  

  By nikeofsamothrace, Short Hills, NJ

  swill away the numb, a holy communion taken before sunday. blue bottle babies with shoes, never broken in, littered instead with convex metal, that clicks when it's dropped, like your ring in the communion basin. but you forget: stone girls cannot corrode, easily....
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  Tomorrow

  

  By nikeofsamothrace, Short Hills, NJ

  Heave and surrender your will. With a swift movement, yank down velvet curtains: observe as the corpse crumples. Bend soup spoons: watch the metal curl backwards. Pluck flowers before they bloom: see them wrinkle. Put them in a velvet vase, constructed of curtains. Stir. Eat with your...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Lesson

  

  By nikeofsamothrace, Short Hills, NJ

  Let's learn to be mildly content; and scratch at kitchen doors without leaving claw marks. and watch as spoons beget spoons and milk dribbles down the granite turning clear, curdling and mixing with dirt. Let's stay still, motionless, as we watch pairs of swans drift on the plate...