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A Poem by JR
We’d some(time)s swim up at County Line
when I (was) a kid, a big group of us
driving up (there) in my beat-a*s truck
early summer, the river..
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A Poem by JR
The trick really
is not think about her
anymore
when the dog barks,
you lock the door
stack all your cares
like wood
laid in rows out o..
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A Poem by JR
One more time around
and darling this timetry and make my jaw
quivermake my muscles go
tenseheel toe and spinone more time around
and this timemak..
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A Poem by JR
(Cons)iderate fellow really
though not really (train)ed to deal with us
we watched as he walk(ed) from the woods
only his shadow walked (with..
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A Poem by JR
Forgiveness is a funny thing…
I carry my mistakes as stones in my jar
one the heaviest I’d held since freshman year
when I wound..
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A Poem by JR
I like my meat a little pink in the middle
among the gray
not all pink, that’s too much, and
I don’t want the damn thing still ..
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A Poem by JR
I remember the first
time she lied to meor at least the first
time I knew for surethe set of her jaw, so
much like my ownsnow fell just outside
th..
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A Poem by JR
Truth be told, we let silence in
beneath our skin, like a worm, tunneling
we let it eat our meat from the inside
until like fruit we bruised
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A Poem by JR
Three poems per day, minimum
three cups of coffee, ok, maybe more like four
four-thirty in the morning stroke beard
thirty-five pounds, eigh..
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A Poem by JR
The best way to win a knife fight
is to not get in one
but we’ve all felt the touch of steel;
look at these scars on my left hand,
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