Best Upended Poems

walled isolation
     when a relationship hits hurdles
     gripped by the unfamiliar 
     a stillness that caves in on us

our small spoonfuls of conversation lack direction 
      closed pod,...

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When pressed to take sides
    to 'answer the question'
  To choose is to cause to divide ... 

  The solution, of course
    to no one upend
  is to answer, 'I don't know
    ~...

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the rooster slept late
  no hen laid an egg
on vacant street corners
  no transient did beg

the sun beat down early
  not a whisper of breeze
the stench of blue trucks 
  smoke, filth and sleaze

shops shuttered tight
  bars and chains all...

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Intended upended
suspended 
upside-down
on trapeze by knees,
is caught, 
catcher-clung
flung over
and righted,
as it is to be...

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