Best Hauled Poems

I almost think you're
 killing me inside.
 No, it must be me.
 I'm mentally killing myself,
 keel hauled over wishes
 and wonderings and dreams.
 You say there's no hope
 but my heart doesn't hear.
 You say you're truly sorry
 but I can't believe the end.
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in that
shopping
cart,

tearing the
pavement
with riotous
laughter

even after
those wheels
caught that
crack

sending you
sprawled into
the pickled
night....

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Damn the nor’easter 
hold the wheel steady
Waves from the Kraken
over the bow
Darkness ahead
charts plot the demon
Into the fury
—doubling down

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)
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