Cloddish Poems - Poems about Cloddish

...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. ......Read the rest...

...‘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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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’......Read the rest...

...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. ......Read the rest...