Pets City Poems

The city above us reaches higher and higher
tipped at the top in all its glory with
iconic, prickly, spires,
as long as air rights permit it.
Build, tear...

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The voluntary gardeners
Placed signs along the fence
Announcing that they’d given up,
Despite their best intents.

“We can’t maintain this lawn because,
Though signage says No Pets,
The owners let...

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Here’s advice that we’ve received
In case we have a sighting
Of wild coyotes in the park;
The fear has been igniting.

Just raise your arms and stand up...

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Dogwalkers
crisscrossing
city streets
finding dog parks
to let loose
throw a frisbee
a bone or a stick
burn pent up energy
get the heart racing
run at full speed
back and forth
fun socializing ...

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Once there was a notorious city
men looted, men killed and raped
from horizon
a notorious Mayor emerged
to make the notorious city
breath freshness of peace

All nights were to...

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Red Lanterns 

Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
Red lanterns hang where green orchards glow.
They swing in the breeze, they dance and then freeze,
Red glistening...

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My son and his family drove down from the big city,
out to the countryside with open fields and steams.
They brought their standard golden poodle along,...

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An earful of breaks...
in overnight silence,
the ticking clock,
crickets chirping,
r-r-r-r-r-o-w-l!
a cat fight,
midnight,
a siren blares,
dogs howl,
a hooting owl,
the mouse...
at prowl,
a plane zooms...
on high,
motors, whining,
tires, as 
trucks and...

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Magical Malediction of Exasperated Want,

Passion Fruit splayed Eyes of the World

Are Cumming

For Christmas Charcoals

And Incinerated House Hold Pets

(Under Trees.)

Have you Gotten your Ticket Yet?

Don’t want...

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Is this my city?
Oh! what a pity.

Is this my place?
A thought makes my mind race.

We walked on roads, without a glance.
Now walking on roads, is...

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