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Tethers 1/12/2006
tethered bait
superfluous
bleat
<br>
predator
an instinct
superlative
<br>
lethal intent
sorely wounded
escapes
<br>
were it man
staying alive
were it feral
<br>
were tether
visible
assume goat
<br>
were tether
invisible
assume other
<br>
visible invisible
corporality spectrality
assume ...
0 Comments, 13 Views,
1 Votes
,5.00 Score
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crack in the mirror 1/10/2006
trenching laying pipe
drag line reminder
<br>
my youth
when diesel exhaust
paradise regained
morning fire-up
hard hat jive talk
the easy flow
decades
<br>
clawing back the earth
laying pipe in a trench
welding then covering
moving foot by foot
day in day out
beyond regret
<br>
can picture
hard soft vanishing edges
canvas ...
1 Comments, 52 Views,
2 Votes
,5.20 Score
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off shore on shore mariners 1/9/2006
marine storage
perimeter chain link
six feet and razor wire
<br>
drive way is mud way
sink holes and clay
drop down deep ruts
<br>
here no tenure
nor guarantees
day work assurance
<br>
it’s man hour labor
muscling machinery
off shore on shore
<br>
these men oversee
rusted out hulks
conglomerate dejure
<br>
parts ...
0 Comments, 23 Views,
2 Votes
,5.20 Score
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drizzle day 1/9/2006
drizzle
down
fortitude
peopled
cubicles
<br>
replicate
tower cell
windows
<br>
exiting
certitude
résumé
anonymity
<br>
pedestrious
crosswalk
umbrella
ubiety
unleashed
<br>
levity
shedding
inevitability
<br>
drizzle day
vicissitude
stare out
solitude
0 Comments, 39 Views,
1 Votes
,5.00 Score
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Cane Toad [ the play ] 1/7/2006
maleficent intent
pled refrain
never again
restraining order
<br>
he’s in
forgiven
he’s the prize
allowances made
she's now free to come / go
<br>
might you know
jump jack take it back
knock down bar fight
Maybellene last seen
running for her life
<br>
rage unfurled
loose and looking
predator without remorse
...
1 Comments, 18 Views,
2 Votes
,5.20 Score
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Runner 1/5/2006
The long distance runner
Methodic runner
Measured
Pace
<br>
He runs the gauntlet
Weaves the irregular path
Down peopled street
Segal’s plaster casts
<br>
Likened pin ball
The runner
Out the chute
Catapulted cannoning
Green street red street
Non stop clocking
<br>
Magritte’s Bowler and Brolly
Shelters men facile grey ...
0 Comments, 56 Views,
3 Votes
,5.39 Score
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Oneness 1/4/2006
the kitchen chair
think to compare
<br>
the once there
word and chair
<br>
the kitchen chair
a sanctuary niche
<br>
the day’s end
a journey rehearsed
<br>
the kitchen chair
an oaken respite
<br>
a spindle a splat
the guild crafted
<br>
the prose poetry
a woodland woman
<br>
she journals deep
a ...
1 Comments, 48 Views,
2 Votes
,5.20 Score
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Whiskey Jack 1/3/2006
running late and whiskey jack
walking the plank / porch rail
he’ll cut and run when periled
<br>
just a common grey jay i say
it annoys him / full stop bird
payback atop the chimney stack
<br>
pecks away rattles my chain
yet when away to the wherever
miss his saucy way /whisky jack
<br>
whiskey jack and jigger glass
coenjoyed /bar ...
0 Comments, 26 Views,
5 Votes
,5.75 Score
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Untitled Poem 1/3/2006
pearly grey the flotsam
yesterday’s leviathans
ripped from foreshore
summer lay over perch
<br>
set adrift as dead heads
barely visible they float
populate the traffic lane
drawn down innocence
<br>
pleasure craft neophytes
racing to reach high tide
skipjack off shore portal
holed keel hauled drown
<br>
Styrofoam cull litter floats
...
0 Comments, 11 Views,
1 Votes
,5.00 Score
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Lights Out 1/2/2006
trees and power lines / blow down
firemen and hydro men wakened
in the mix a flux / flowering mayhem
<br>
beyond loss of power / familiarity
café window and neon sign / open
the storm ravaged seeking shelter
<br>
gathering / peopling time and place
young old rich poor / cohabiting
sharing café floor space / luminosity
<br>
oil cloth / café table ...
1 Comments, 52 Views,
4 Votes
,2.47 Score
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Windy today! 1/1/2006
Wind, wind , wind
when will you ever stop?
Starts early, stays late.
Wind, wind, wind, .
When will you ever stop
can we just have one
day , nothing but calm?
When on when, will
you ever stop?
Come summer , hot dry
wish you were here,
wind, wind, wind
don’t ever stop.
0 Comments, 15 Views,
2 Votes
,1.04 Score
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Bathroom Silence 12/25/2005
As I sit alone and wait it gives mew time to ponder. What kind
of hair day it has been. I stare off in space and wonder. They
say life is what you make it. What have I done with mine? All
the great things I might have done, if I only had the time.
I could have helped my neibour, I could have knelt to pray,
but I'm always so darn busy, sorry not today.
But wait, it's not too late, this ...
0 Comments, 19 Views,
0 Votes
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Street Busker 12/23/2005
find him / see him / mart / liquor store
guitar busker / shade street illustration
<br>
opaqueness unaccounted for an enigma
quite gratitude in murmured / thank you
<br>
coin for the day / stacked / nickel / dime
tower like representation / story layered
<br>
adds up to [ 1. 82 $ ] whole been coffee
one large to go / coin day chessmen pay
<br> ...
0 Comments, 18 Views,
2 Votes
,5.20 Score
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Street Busker 12/23/2005
find him / see him / mart / liquor store
guitar busker / shade street illustration
<br>
opaqueness unaccounted for an enigma
quite gratitude in murmured / thank you
<br>
coin for the day / stacked / nickel / dime
tower like representation / story layered
<br>
adds up to [ 1. 82 $ ] whole been coffee
one large to go / coin day chessmen pay
<br> ...
0 Comments, 23 Views,
3 Votes
,5.39 Score
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Winter Solstice 12/22/2005
and winter solstice
and leaves without
winter solstice duvet
cloaking a blanketing
<br>
and mildewed leaves
are the pool solemn
in the rained redoubt
curb gutter necrosis
<br>
and a wilt intense
and a summer's vein
and a serrated edge
and a felled refrain
<br>
and a solstice crust
and a life-size moon
and a crystal bloom
and a ...
2 Comments, 51 Views,
2 Votes
,5.20 Score
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Street Thirteen 12/19/2005
Christmas for street teens
backpack stuff miscellany
toothbrush / toothpaste
wash cloth / soap / socks
<br>
lasting one or two months
volunteers pack backpacks
select / knowingly wise
in peril they too escaping
<br>
articulate /shed the meager
hand to mouth compliance
bed / breakfast trade
palmed off man to man to man
<br>
daddy a cipher ...
0 Comments, 35 Views,
3 Votes
,5.39 Score
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Loneliness Versus Aloneness 12/18/2005
A person must be okay with loneliness the relationship?
When loneliness is transformed into aloneness.... deep,
enriching relationship and pure love follows
.......
Loneliness constants missing the other.
Aloneness constantly delighted in self.
Loneliness miserable.
Aloneness blissful.
Loneliness is always worried, missing something, hankering
for something, desiring ...
1 Comments, 43 Views,
13 Votes
,1.30 Score
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The Hood 12/18/2005
hooded mergansers
late afternoon silhouettes
zigzagging / investigative
<br>
perhaps skip tracers
tracking / cleaves bay water
on the run / debtor
<br>
light and shadow preclude
chiaroscuro afternoon
debtor’s prison
<br>
so few where once so many
fanciful conclusion
extinction perverse
<br>
wisely beyond reach these
...
1 Comments, 36 Views,
2 Votes
,5.20 Score
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Arabesques of Insult 12/18/2005
down the way three streets over
seamy neighborhood and cheap
two flights up / domicile
affordable bed-sitting
two hundred fifty-four square feet
<br>
belly of beast sucklings / familial
playing street games gang themes
fine art tag lines
primary coloring
slow dry / on the sly / raconteurs
<br>
bed-sitting frames placid neon wake
gaunt sidles ...
1 Comments, 48 Views,
4 Votes
,5.57 Score
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Namaste! 12/18/2005
There is a fable about several young lads skinny dipping
in the river. A divine prankster stole their clothes but
after they gave prankster the Namaste! Gesture - he had
no choice but to return their clothes. It would not be advisable
to go skinny dipping by in the Greenbrier River - The West
Virginia Justice system would not be amused. Nevertheless,
the Cache "Namaste" can be ...
3 Comments, 55 Views,
12 Votes
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Lover's Dance 12/17/2005
Lover's Dance
<br>
Two lover's meet in secret, a place they've been
before.
Basking in the moment, their bodies needing more.
<br>
<br>
Not understanding why their here, and caring even less.
Eye's that lock with emotion, with love they can't
confess.
<br>
<br>
Heart's beat with desire, from memories that they
share.
Knowing what their doing's ...
3 Comments, 187 Views,
27 Votes
,8.29 Score
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Greetings Oh Great Astrological Mentor- 12/17/2005
Greetings Oh Great Astrological Mentor-
<br>
Some of the traditionalist don't care Chiron. It's
not a planet or even as an asteroid, they say. After all WilD
Billy Lilly never knew about Chiron. Lilly is the great
granddaddy of Horary but he's not the alpha and the
omega. Lilly had the 2 luminaries, 5 planets, the keystone
cops, and witches in the 12th house. A foundation but ...
1 Comments, 25 Views,
11 Votes
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Love Games Turn Into Serious Intentions 12/17/2005
Has Love Alway Been an Element of our enviorment or is it
just another invention of the mind. This inquiring mind
wants to know.
1 Comments, 31 Views,
10 Votes
,0.20 Score
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SO 12/16/2005
man /his machines /large/small
bracketed by maintenance and
due diligence /insouciant Lud
sputter and stall is then kaput
<br>
man tools exegesis slide scale
precepts prior /wrack and ruin
rust the harbinger slow dance
partnering is vinyl waltz /spin
<br>
the cared for/ treasured breath
shay moment / then estate sale
tool box oeuvre is descriptive
ten ...
0 Comments, 39 Views,
2 Votes
,5.20 Score
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pay it forward squat 12/15/2005
story boards scripted outtakes
strewn soliloquy floored
out of focus planted blood stain
street equivalent alleyway crazy
<br>
corner confluence wedge corner
he finds veins shares his needle
pay it forward taught tourniquet
three favors thereon his demise
<br>
ceiling high stain tag line scrawl
encircles blood splattered ceiling
...
0 Comments, 33 Views,
1 Votes
,5.00 Score
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Misspeak 12/14/2005
voices adrift flotsam voices
jettisoned rapid fire pace slow dance
instantaneous choice of words
would you go with me
a maybe heard
tease word
<br>
the booth man
without either shape of form
gruff course want my steak medium rare
awhile it’s too tough take it back
your fries are they okay
gruff fine thank you
<br>
ingratiating your from ...
1 Comments, 28 Views,
1 Votes
,5.00 Score
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Tipping Point 12/13/2005
Tipping Point
<br>
tip point
knifed feeling
fathom deep speak
lives without healing
no opportune immediacy
no space space cumulative
<br>
centre stage table two chairs
café floor lists is sinking
foundation century pours
years of the improbable
pursuit of exit doors
fallible # 10 pour
0 Comments, 20 Views,
2 Votes
,3.81 Score
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hooded merganser 12/10/2005
three hooded mergansers
anchor bay water morning
they wind sail southward
incomprehensible journey
flight path and Sanskrit
<br>
incandescent morning light
this they’re dancing partner
slow dance companionship
arabesques made concentric
daybreak fissure dance wake
<br>
so simple they alight to leave
no aftermath of unendurable
no ...
1 Comments, 36 Views,
2 Votes
,5.20 Score
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from to somewhere 12/9/2005
patch of earth were paths led
took undiminished imagination
factored in curiosity , innocence
escorted to place of fascination
poplar stand , winter rabbit run
swimming hole , April gravel pit
summer river dip , back eddies
hand over hand washed out rail
failed railroad , trough construct
rafting lumber yard , inundated
spring runoff , the spring solstice
double ...
1 Comments, 40 Views,
1 Votes
,5.00 Score
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Mad Walk 12/8/2005
predator
downward spiral
plummeting to kill
silent until / then
talon struggle
prey
<br>
she power walks Peden Hill
bone wrap / spindle thin arms
dead on line of sight / up and down
highway hill / day and night
pumps her scrawny angular arms
every day power walk / mad walk
<br>
low to the ground / squat man
quick time walk / on the run
scavenger ...
1 Comments, 32 Views,
1 Votes
,5.00 Score
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