Best Beds Poems

Diminished
but ennobled,
the soldier came home
his two limbs
traded for the 
sanctuary
of a deeper peace

Broken
in completeness,
his braces held proud
each battle
medaled
in the memory
—of his finest hour 

(The New Room: November, 2021)...

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I'm a fruit of the tree of life
with knowledge of
the unknown
What I'm known to leave floats 
above trees with grown broken 
branches
I've grown to see that not
all soil is fertile as many
seeds are left
to languish & toil
The grounds are barren for
the unyielding & those
sowing with...

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the goslings have shed ochre puffs
                 which are no longer in vogue,
           they're wobbling toddlers now
   ...

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olive skin so soft and silky smooth
dark brown hair the color of poo
sat in the sun too long is what she do
and now shes bronzed and leathery too
her skin and hair turned to vermouth
aged and withered unwise to see
the color of bronze she turned indeed
now...

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Written February 26, 2013


Its all this new slang
Got them banging their heads
Against their bicycle beds
And the foolhardy pledge 
To ride tricycles instead

We are the kings and queens
Of the wonderful yard
Of the street corner dancers
And panhandling bards

A generation will rise
So duck and cover your eyes
We're building...

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Covers uncovers
skins of mostly selfish acts –
four-cornered romance







November 16, 2008...

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Faceless dolls
Ballerinas dance on beds of erect nails
giggling as they cover the bed
in sheets of red
the children watch
wish
wait and dream
to grow out of youth
embrace the numb that comes with wisdom
dance the dance of vague maids
who wear red shoes and perfect braids...

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In the sunny cottage garden
The hollyhocks thrive
Pleasing to the eye
And loved by the butterflies
Hollyhocks are the eatery
For larvae to thrive
Perpetuating the Painted Lady
Also pleasing to the eye...

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I’ve always found a beauty in it
 
The creases that lay like clumsy limbs
 
Corners of gowns coming unashamedly away
 
From the cotton skin
 
All proud in its off-white softness...

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As a kid growing up
watching the old black and white TV,
I was puzzled to see Ozzie and Harriet,
a married couple,
retire to sleep in twin beds
So I asked my mother,
do you and daddy go to sleep in different beds?
My mother just laughed and said, no child...

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I check hotel beds
imagine them lurking there
shudder at the word
shorten it to just BBs
the very thought makes me sweat

* Bedbugs...

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This girl of mine,
there's things to be said,
between the sheets,
she's amazing in bed,
she sheds her clothes,
i play her game,
she might just bite,
this girl ain't tame,
seducing me,
sex on her mind,
it was plain to see,
her high heeled kind,
clothes on the floor,
the lights dimmed down,
a smile is all...

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We should be content in our white linen beds,
Dozing as clock hands spin around, 
And shadows rise and fall upon the wall.
So what magic is this,
What spell persists to wake us?
The ancient incantation whispering at the keyhole 
For 20 years or more. 
Not heard until...

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Sleeping on air-beds
Awake to nature
Laments and lulling
I search dream chambers
Among hardened sheep

A-raft I float
Sub-con, confab-
Like the low fire-moon
Groaning madly

And now, Sun!
Loving Host,
Bring Breathe back!

Trees swim
Lives glow:

GLOW!...

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A push-button blood alarm
scans the receptivity of softly ticking ears.
It is the ever-wakening
never snoozing
internet jungle calling.

Fasting birds as large as velociraptors
insist on being called parrots,
a raucous conversation hardly heard
as it filters through
3-D printed flugelhorns.

A cell awakes vibrates within an ear socket
demanding its early morning diaper...

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