Best Frocks Poems

There you are!

With a fine splintered needle
sew me my wings in taffeta;
iridescent oil dripped and slick to the psyche's touch

Comb my breath back to the inhalation of stars
and sew at mercury speed

It's with a blanket of orbiting atmospheres 
that you cover yourself 
It's with a...

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Snakes And Long Frocks

Paddy's day in long frocks
in pursuit of the snake 
for crisp plastic shamrock
or far-eastern fake

But great day for the Irish
our rubbing of the green
with drops of the hard stuff
pints and poteen

Great men altogether
voices toward the tarry ceiling
Oh Danny boy we all cried
sung...

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These rugby-playing girls - 
or women, should I say? -
are so rough and ready,
dashing down that field,
conveying that oval ball
from this end to that,
gritting their teeth.
Oh, what might! Such a sight!

Or do I not prefer
to behold delicate white frocks
on ladies whose fairylike fingertips
hold their tiny...

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