Accusingly Poems

Where Time Stands Still

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In that timeless realm, O Cosmic Sister, our love at the helm, where time stands still-
our love becomes the canvas, 
the enzymes, the film.
Each fleeting heartbeat -a brushstroke, ballast,
a...

the 15 second hex

...I’m tired of influencers faking nervousness.
my generation wants to care less
these days.
it’s a counter-current hack.
we want to be less defined.
we can search and reflect for ourselves.
we’re...

The Last Thirty Nine Minutes Of My Life

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The last of my final hour I look around the room and spot my children  
He is arguing argumentatively with his sister and flailing his hands in the air 
Everyone is going o...

The Worst

...i found it skulking
in a pile of broken poems

it glared at me accusingly
as if demanding that i read it

the more i read
the worse it got

i knew what I had to do
i had to edit
i had to e...

Chapter 21-- Dolly Damian and Molly: Cascades Continued Ii

...Dolly was beside herself with thoughts 
Of this powerful man,  Damian Possessing 
Her.  She wandered around his
Spacious apartment before 
Returning to his bedroom 
to sit on his bed. 
Damian w...

Appearance

...APPEARANCE

It was just another day.
The heat was as thick as
the cloud of dust my car
kicked up on the long dirt road
to my friend’s house,
an oasis of order in the
central Florida jungle
a...

Appearance

...Appearance

It was just another day.
The heat was as thick as
the cloud of dust my car
kicked up on the long dirt road
to my friend’s house,
an oasis of order in the
central Florida jungle
a...

Stormy Skies

...I finished moving into my residential college as a storm began
- fat raindrops, as big as coconuts, falling from a black and fouling sky.

These northerners were acting like a "tropical storm" (He...

I Am Alone

...In the beginning, it was not too bad

Stay at home

Do not travel out

If you must stray, mask your identity

Distance yourself socially, seventy-two inches

An arbitrary amount

No visit...

How Did My Sister Bear This

...Mother's hair is whiter than it was a month ago,
her smile is gone; she has aged a hundred years
in thirty days, I do not recognize her.
vibrancy and enthusiasm have dissipated
She cannot sit up,...

The Glastonbury Dress

...I watch you slowly sink
taking longer than expected.
I imagined Ophelia
flowers drifting over you
floating in the dark water.
Reality is more sordid
and yet still sensual;
your breasts now vis...

Reflections

...I stand staring into the water.
Battling the light, fighting past shadow.
Fleeting images skate along glass.
Uncertainty, doubt, nothing is plain.
Curious orange, glinted, then gone.
Rippled con...

She Puts Us Through Our Paces

...She can hear a candy wrapper being opened a mile away.
She races home, and tears through her dog door,
Stares at us accusingly, gets on our laps, to smell our breaths.
We always save her a piece.
...

Rhythm of Time

...RHYTHM  OF  TIME

7  15  pointers race accusingly.  Crawl out of bed.
Hurry to bus  8  00. Tulips open imperceptibly in the sun.
Bus creeps through gridlock.  Pointers spin in a blur.
Elevator s...

Accused

...Six of them stare at me accusingly
unblinking, motionless, all in a line,
their silence since their sentence came to be
bears witness to them, victims of a crime.
Pointless for me to offer a defe...

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