Best Corkscrews Poems

~ Curlicues and squiggles ~


A skywriter flew by
   He drew a straight line
I looked up with a sigh
   What if the...

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Sharp alien quiet accosts our nuclear fallout,
Twin beds and I between them,
Remnants of faces
Laughter, tears,
Exchanges deadline in future tense,
The decimating absence of marriage
To anything whole--

This...

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Crushed mirrors hammers melted nails 
spooky silent snails
Feathers in my teeth
The red in your lips 
The curl of your hips
Your tongue on fire 
Kites in...

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"Loneliness has never earned a day's pay.
     What I've learned, first of all, is that loneliness chooses it's own weapons. ...

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Yggdrasil is a home to hanging bones
As trees to singing birds

Yggdrasil

Beneath its hallowed branches
Thick wands of spring tree flesh
Twirl into the finest corkscrews
Suspended from the...

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It’s time to flip the free calendar,
loosen the rusty Christmas tree stand screws
Battery’s low on the reindeer car,
boost the spirits with some gift used snowshoes

In...

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Now, who wouldn't hire this confident young entrepreneur? 



Sitting here this morning at my desk a bit concerned about a brand new job that I’m...

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Leaving London

A thousand flickered lights
Beat out neon
Fantasies animation
Jerks its pseudo motion
Feet by fifty foot tall
On the south river board walk

Juke box gangsters one-armed bandit
Hang street...

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Sit unflinching in a slumbered pose
each exhaled breath like a moor's mist,
a rhythmic pulse like a metronome 
on the thin temples throb 
like a snare...

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Corkscrews in the jugular
and wine sat there in front
of you,
cheese and pickle on the sofa
so far and it's so good.

But then the morning comes
to frisk...

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The iced earth encases within hidden depths
a dormant forgotten fossil, enslaving each limb's tendril budding like pebbles locked
in chains forged, contorted by rock and stratified...

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But with her love, the flame is wrath-furnaced, 
dissolves like ice cubes in blazing sunlight. 
Then classic symphonies are syncronized
as a phoenix sets its last...

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The blushing beauty doesn’t want to be noticed?
She wears a peacock in her hair...corkscrews,
ringlets, spirals everywhere. Yellow, orange, bluebirds,
hearts exuding happiness. The X’s and O’s
on...

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A hot muggy day sets the stage.
The warm air blows across the dry prairie,
Suffuses with the high cool air of the gulf.
They entertwine to form...

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Hair like corkscrews,
crazy curly and short,
pulled into two plaits,
begging to be let free.

With her eyes wandering about, 
she sprouts a smile on my face,
as she...

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