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***
This
cold is historic,
and
I worry
about
the feral cats.
How
can they
survive
outside
the
warmth and safety
..
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***
It
must be magic. I’d say miracle,
the
surgeon’s dexterous one-handed fete --
his
hand is an arachnid ..
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***
I’d
already had a nip or twenty.
I
wasn’t cleared for takeoff
but
I reached for my clouded mind
anyway
and b..
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***
This
morning the last two recruits
were
ordered to feed the canons;
a
risky maneuver, a finger or a future
can
be lost..
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***
I
knew it was love
when
your toes curled under
you made those little yip sounds
like
coyote pups learning to howl.
..
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***
Did
you know Pablo?
He
came from Santiago.
You
speak his language
so
I hoped you might have
known
him. You’re ..
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***
It’s
late, near halfway,
and
I, the pensive rock,
lie
just outside the stream bed
waiting
the flood’s lift
..
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***
I
paint for reasons
unreachable;
honors
come
to those
who complete;
I abandon --
and a
search immediately beg..
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haiku
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***
The
best poets, really great
poets,
are all in jail, busted
flat,
penniless, a handout asked
and
a ticket received
..
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