Best Closures Poems

I had hoped there would be a 50th class reunion for my class of 67.
Instead, I got word the other day that Aggie High is...

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The clown

Circuit circuits
moving round in circles
swings and roundabouts
junctions dead ends
living closures and 
beginnings

The fool wise man
woman child in all
posits mocks
understands the world
beauty horror
misgivings paths
ahead and...

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by Mark Miller © 06/15/2014

Signs stained white written by twilight's blacken Knight,
Raining silent sights depressants drown the conscience might-
Feeling venereal waves sullen air on standing...

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No one is watching on but you,
Arrested in the familiar and unfamiliar images,
Getting to know the stranger you have been avoiding…
The one that no one...

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All of my texts go unanswered
My anxious calls slither to voicemail
I glance at the huge grandfather clock
My hands distractedly sorting the mail

I then check my...

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SUTAIH

H	*	H
I	*	I
A	*	A
T	*	T
U	*	U
S	*	S

And then it unfolded like a zipper that opened
teeth gaping through hollows worse for wear
top stop loosened dichotomy schisms exposed
slider with no way to go...

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Four Cafés
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Four cafés were at the extreme left of what I could see from my apartment window.  There they were, sparkling in the cold...

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And when it ends suddenly, unexpectedly,
You start to count.
First on the days, then the hours - then
Just counting until 100
Then
Beginning     ...

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Heat creeps across unsuspecting December 
Screech of insects' pitch is matched to previous years 
Mirror humidity shimmer doesn't remember 
Last Summer a virus spread, inducing...

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Disaster, devastation, death and destiny
Headlines, slay us every day
Not since some time-past history
Were people stricken - this terrible way

Self-isolate and stay indoors
Restrictions with fines or...

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Ocean girdled nation had prospect for absolute containment
Overseas observers, in distant comfort, complacent 
Wuhan origin arrivals sparked a catastrophic failure
Leaving lock down 25th January, flying...

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Once time's second hand 
did slip into mine
…delicate enough
Even as all of me, he grasped 
for-ever the paradox

Then tiny fingers, swiftly probed
Experiencing me?
Crossing unhindered
o'er palms,...

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Love is blind, but so is hate
    Blind hatred of Trump sealed our fate

  Stupid lockdowns, stupid school closures
  ...

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Stages in the “Art of Giving Up”

Suspenders
My ass won’t hold the pants up anymore

Turn Signals
Just leave ‘em on
I forgot where I was headed

Velcro closures
If you...

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Pools of Longing
Sara L Russell, July 9th, 03:11am

That it might come back to me, that sweet sensation,
When i would reach out my arms across the...

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