A Reflected Woman
...I don’t have a blueprint,
just this smudged version
of what she would look like,
an impression in a shop windowpane,
as the light catches her in mid-thought.
To recreate, I must fillet an idea...
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Categories:
chawing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
It's Tradition
...Is there a reason why all ballplayers spit
Can they get to the majors, if a spittoon they can't hit
Twenty paces while chawing
On tobaccy, while jawing
At the ump, methinks its likely tra...
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Categories:
chawing, baseball,
Form: Limerick
A Reflected Woman
...I don’t have a blueprint,
just this smudged version
of what she would look like,
an impression in a shop windowpane,
just as the light catches her in mid-thought.
To recreate, I must fillet a...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
chawing, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
I'D Rather Write About
...a flustered tango of Gypsy moths
drumming the porchlight; chalk artists;
the endemic disappearance of farms—silos lost
in unkempt fields; space stations; the sunlit-scent of lemon
oil on che...
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Categories:
chawing, poetry, writing, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
It's Tradition I Submit
...Is there a reason why all ballplayers spit
Can they get to the majors, if a spittoon the can't hit
Twenty paces while chawing
On tabaccy while jawing
At the ump, methinks it's likely trad...
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Categories:
chawing, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Cowpersons
...Two old cowpokes were reminiscing about the olden days,
Comparing thoughts about the way things are nowadays.
Spending the afternoon guzzling beer at the local saloon,
Chawing terbaccy aiming near...
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Categories:
chawing, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme