A Canine Eloquence
...Old Spice’ and wet grass carry years
of understanding between us.
If I break wind, you run to me,
body rapt and heeding,
every hair translating
a smudged paragraph into
volumes of memory.
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Categories:
cloddish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dog Talk
...‘Old Spice’ and wet grass carry years
of understanding between us.
What I wear and you gather into you,
become a language neither of us know,
but comprehend in mouse-tracks of deduction.
You...
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Categories:
cloddish, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Takeaway On Lunch Dates From An Introvert
...Exchanging cloddish giggles
Gawky, flailing limbs
Quota, reaching, nibbles
Cloth to dot our chins
Predictable mindless chatter
We must appear intrigued
An opening to flatter
Allows a moment ...
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Categories:
cloddish, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
America and My Children Are Displacing Me---
...AMERICA AND MY CHILDREN ARE DISPLACING ME---
must I die
said the elderly man
must I cry
says the elder woman
what wrongs have I done
to be treated as such
America treats me like an unwanted ...
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Categories:
cloddish, abuse, america, analogy, community,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Night Flights
...Into the indigo sky
the planes climb
at regular intervals,
like clean, slow-motion
signal flares
fired by a punctilious soldier
fighting a decorous war.
From this distance,
the planes’...
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Categories:
cloddish, adventure, flying, freedom, history,
Form: Free verse
Red Birdfeeder
...On my usual perch
at my computer
I sit alone today
gazing out the window
on a winter world
of numbing brown and gray.
Touches of green
provide slim respite
from the cloddish chill of day.
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Categories:
cloddish, beauty, bird,
Form: Rhyme