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NaPoWriMo Day 21: Fall Out Boy
We faded into the cushions Adrift on a sea of smoke With a cheese stick raft. Filed under: Poetry, Writings Tagged: NaPoWriMo, poetry, writing
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NaPoWriMo Day 22: The End of This Semester
Heat and pressure Molten pools of diamond In anatomically-correct Barbie doll plastic puddles And an echoing, resounding “no” Swirling in the miasma Of volcanic ash and stress sweat Which smells...
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NaPoWriMo Day 23: Pledging an Attitude Adjustment
The rise and fall of your breath Is a metronome beneath my ear Punctuated by the steady bass of your heart And the whisper of snores strummed Across your vocal chords. Fabric softener cologne and...
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NaPoWriMo Day 24: Swallowed by a Duck
Let’s turn up the Beach Boys And roll the windows down To let waves of sunshine break Across noses dusted by pollen And freckles kissed with gold Under bug-eyed glass lenses And a floppy straw hat We...
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NaPoWriMo Day 25: Regarding Elves
She’s going to dance across your tongue A waft of rosemary, lemon and something A little darker Chased down with the whisky amber of her eyes Your taste buds bending beneath her feet Like coral polyps...
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NaPoWriMo Day 26: I Photosympathize
I’m planting plants because plants are life And I plan to live a long, long time with my Toes in the dirt and my head in the clouds and the sun Flirting with the freckles on my nose Because sunscreen...
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NaPoWriMo Day 27: Running Shoes
used to have a crush on this kid i met in the back of an ambulance as he was pumping adrenaline straight to my brain and arms and legs and i wanted to dance or run or something so he ran out after me...
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NaPoWriMo Day 28: Piano Man
electric fingertips hard-wired to stumble across a black-and-white march to “Ode to Joy” stumbling down a decrescendo cascade of toy blocks tumbling down the stairs and onto the patio to bake like...
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NaPoWriMo Day 29: Come Back to the Kitchen, Please
an empty kitchen chair still vibrating from where you were sitting and filling it with “you” just a moment ago in the haze of a flickering 60 watt dangling above an ant colony and a half-empty bottle...
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NaPoWriMo Day 30: Seeing the World in Black and Light
I caught a glimpse of the crescent of your face sliced by the glow of an overhead light and framed by the edge of my glasses From the corner of my eye where my vision starts to blur because I read too...
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Bench Wreathed in Mourning Glory
wilted-petal bruises on blushing evening thighs cracked heels and soles and ripped toenails in primordial mud shredded by slicing blades of grass and glass on the sidewalk, glass in the street. shards...
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Last Battle of the Summer
under a lemon tree next to a pot of basil one single handshake wrapped a glove around my kidneys it’s going to rain today the murky brackish brown of the river with lightning silver flashes of fish...
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Let’s Live Indie Rock – I’m Not Being Ironic
In high school I never understood irony It eluded me and I multiple-guessed my way To As and ignored the premise Because I hated and hate Shakespeare. But “hipsters” are “hip” where I live And are...
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I’m Sorry But I’m Just Thinking of the Right Words to Say
standing on a mountain top shouting i’m changing i’m changing i’m changing into the wind so it blows back into my ears that i’m changing i’m changing the wind is blowing; my direction is changing...
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Problem Aggregator
I forgot how to speak for an hour and a half today I started listening to everyone around me Because I was strapped to a chair and trapped by their words Filling like a clogged drain with their...
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Idiot Letter, Idiot Wind
I want to write you a letter Not a Dear John but a dear you, my dear From your idiot Jane, three sheets to the wind In this idiot breeze Crying seawater into peaches and champagne Bubbling over into my...
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Traumatic eVENT
I decided I hated you approximately 6 minutes and 42 seconds ago Because of something I thought you knew that you didn’t know I shoved three cookies in my mouth And snorted seltzer up my nose and...
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Mental Colonoscopy
Pull up a sigh From the soles of your feet Like you’re removing a pool lining And scrubbing your insides clean I’ll help I’ll take a toothbrush to your liver And a plunger to your bowels I’ll even take...
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Silverfish
Are the walls teeming? An insect invasion Tunnels tracked across Buzzing doors and floors The world is rippling It could be my eyes My strained retinas Skittishly rolling Horses bridled, trapped...
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Marinara Kiss
Heavy bells announce, “enter.” Stumble in, safe from the drizzle, or maybe it was fog. Down cement stairs so cold they were wet Or so wet they felt cold through New Balance sneakers. Tug up matching,...
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