Best Radiators Poems

All this long week
of early spring head colds
our National Public Radio informants
and performers,
speakers and listeners,
have been about the business of raising capital investments
preferably in their...

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Candy floss, seaside rock, smoothies, and flags sporting
Union Jacks
Replace the old traditions of striped deckchairs 
And Kiss-Me-Quick hats.
Chipwicks for our salt and vinegar fries
And their...

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snowy daffodils 
bend under the chill blanket
sunrise uncovers
The radiators still ping
April is disguised as March...

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Cogwheel Ballet
            by Odin Roark

Hot
Humid
New York summer
Industrial commerce 24/7

Textile scents of humid wool
Acerbic edge...

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I

In the solitary hours
my ears play tricks on me.
Call this a confession if you will.
I hear things that I don't want to,
People talking indescriptively,
Electronic tones...

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The most important noise you will know: 
the smoke detector with a dying battery' 
out in the stair well
going off every three minutes 
with the...

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wet ice pellets
pitter patter on the pane…
radiators steam...

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Ten ping pong balls on a bed stout brewed in radiators. To exact temperatures of course. Lucifer Christopher cross dangling on beams. In towers. Known...

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That street, 
Not easy to 
Spell, even 
Now.

But radiators, 
And old Christmases
Are unfounded. 

But still, this 
Tinsle town, 
I wish I never 
Abandoed you.

Driving, so...

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Spent all day cleaning up my car for a trip to Broken Hill.
Serviced, oiled and greased. The petrol tank is filled.
Left Adelaide for the open...

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I see the snow falling again,

Again I must start up ""Old Betsy"" before bed,

Bed brings cold feet and shivers until the
body heat thaws it out,

Out...

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I have a woman.
I’m proud to call her my wife.
Some give theirs’ nicknames, ‘her indoors’ and ‘the trouble and strife’
Now, I have my flaws and...

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C. T. Myers


Just a couple weeks ago the boss called in an ad, hoping we could find a guy to fill Bill Daly’s shoes.
Bill had...

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See them gather around you, observing everything that you do, see them on top of the tree, listening to your heart beat and measuring your...

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People like the Lord are watching you 
The men who follow Jesus cared
You're constantly on an audition 
And everyone you ever knew
Will eventually be there...

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