Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
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“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”
Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows i...
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Categories:
bloodlessly, muse,
Form: Narrative
Traveling Death Salesman
...I can't sleep.
Or, I can
and did
for three hours
but I continue waking
into a Stephen King nightmare
too real to ignore
because I feel isolated
in this quagmire
of hopeless history.
In th...
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Categories:
bloodlessly, depression, dream, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse
My Father Is Dancing With Death
...Gabriel A. Levicky
MY FATHER IS DANCING WITH DEATH
His elephant ears moved.
His ash face, straight from a collection of death masks
Those behind dust covered windows.
And yes.
His dentures, click,...
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Categories:
bloodlessly, father, father, father,
Form: Free verse
What They Saw (Part 1)
...What they saw, that seminal liberation day,
Defied, at first, all comprehension;
The winding dirt road uncoiled to a clearing,
Snaked to primal ordinariness, a camp, militia deserted.
Static gate...
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Categories:
bloodlessly, confusion, death, history, inspirational,
Form: Blank verse