Posts Tagged "poem"

Scary Movies

“Today the cloud shapes are terrifying,
and I keep expecting some enormous
black-and-white B-movie Cyclops
to appear at the edge of the horizon,”

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Dependence Day

“It would be a quieter holiday, no fireworks
or loud parades, no speeches, no salutes to any flag,
a day of staying home instead of crowding away,”

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Making a Fist

For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.

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My Brother, Asleep

“Peace lily, arrowhead, aloe—
the last time you went to rehab

all your houseplants died. Absence parched
the heart of your terra-cotta pots.”

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No Ruined Stone

“When the dead return
they will come to you in dream
and in waking, will be the bird
knocking, knocking against glass, seeking”

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