Best Guardrail Poems

As I sit here on this guardrail,
on this first day of the year where
a jacket is not what you need to keep you warm,
watching the...

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At first he drank to be one of the boys
  To act a bit rowdy, to make some noise
He couldn't resist all the teen...

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I reach for the mayo last night
Too late I realize it’s not right
Out of the fridge door
And onto the floor
The lid was placed on, but...

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There's only one way down a dead-end road 
Drug dealers don't make good friends 
Spend your whole life chasing your nose 
Just sniffing in the...

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Spray painted on the bridge guardrail
The words "Two Feathers is pok li la..."
Past and the present meet by the river
The old ways remembered by the...

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sweet candy used to be a friend of mine
sour mold is now the enemy i fall for
the air is so cold down here
i am impervious...

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Peach Cloche Hat

At the zoo 
the lady in the peach cloche hat
leads the rest of us 
around the rhino into better light.

She leads us to...

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*True Story

I’ve had many instances of divine intervention in my life
But, this one stands out in my mind forever
It was a snowy day, only a...

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The Docent at the Zoo 


The docent in the peach cloche hat
leads the rest of us 
around the rhino into better light.

She leads us to...

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This piece demonstrates how lasting the bond can be that often develops between young children and their schoolteachers.

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" Summa Lamma" Countrey Dellia  won a 
sixman " one woan brawl"
to hand the right to date
the infamous " Miss Wombahaz" Tense Tussy
he made...

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At the Zoo 

The lady in the peach cloche hat
leads the rest of us 
around the rhino into better light.

She leads us to the guardrail...

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I am the American worker
coal fired for refined thieves
on the thirty first floor.

My secrets rest
roadside beyond the guardrail
where ditched alleys
lead to rowhouses.

A list of porches
repeating...

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Tabula Fractus

         come with me to this moment
         where...

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Defenses
by Michael R. Burch

Beyond the silhouettes of trees
stark, naked and defenseless
there stand long rows of sentinels:
these pert white picket fences.

Now whom they guard and how...

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