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A Poem by JR
I’ve always felt kin to the water
I love to live within its cool
when I was young I would let myself sink
to the bottom of the swimming..
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A Poem by JR
I’m taking down all my fences
nail-by-nail, board by board
I’m bringing them low
no need for them now,
I plan to let the wild..
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A Poem by JR
This day and the one before it ran
like oil
we sat behind that stilted house
tonight
and drank our whiskey with rocks
ghosts, you said, it..
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A Poem by JR
I don’t know what I expected to find here
when I was a kid, I would construct images of you
there among the rafters and in the fold of the..
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A Poem by JR
He lay on the cedar floor planks
gasping for air like
a fish does for water
she watched him from across the room
filing the rough from he..
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A Poem by JR
I sometimes catch your scent in the strangest places
at the grocery store, when someone passes
and leaves a little of you in their wake
at th..
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A Poem by JR
I knew it was under that rock
big fat brown, undulating with the current
twisting its hips back and forth
trying so hard to not be seen
bu..
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A Poem by JR
So swiftly we snatch for any Paradise
lose our grip, fall again, alone
like Lucifer, denied his throne
tossed out by the hand
from his lof..
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A Poem by JR
They gave him pills because he wasn’t as happy
as everyone else
so he sat in his chair for a year and a half
while people grew older ar..
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A Poem by JR
I watch you
free on this little TV
the things you do
would make a martyr blush
but hey, I’m sure you got paid
somehow
so it&r..
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