Best Unrecorded Poems

She’s not as dramatic as a hurricane or forest fire
Just someone’s old mother
Arranging her daily dignity
In an unrefrigerated apartment

She’s got a cushion chair
An oxygen tank
A bed
Her toilet
Weather Channel on the TV

She’s survived past her friends
The world’s last Sparrow chipping at a bird feeder
Night muffled of...

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He is watching an in-flight movie,
staring at it in steerage
as he fades away.

The boarding procedures were too slow,
there were delays.
Tightly stringed tensions
arose between ears and nose.
Cardiac murmurs grew raucous.

He is a pilot, but not on this aircraft.
He’s flying a Piper Cub over Sri Lanka;
much younger...

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My life is a story without the words,
a music song of unwritten chords.
A melody I choose to sing,
tunes I hear that sometimes ring.

My collection of rhyme,
tells the absence of time.
Feelings expressed in a lyric,
so others can hear it.

My anger held in a note,
volume controlled by...

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She flew out of a lark's mouth,
she was high in a cloudless sky.

I had a telescope in my mind
and an old VHS video recorder
for my left eye,
my right eye
had already been blinded
by self-winding hummingbirds.

Her apparel was transparent,
her hair was transparent,
her elfin ears were feathered
and those...

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