Double Time Poems

Colors In A Coffee House

...
Double time hits for the ceiling — 
The clouds of white smoke, the healing

Childhood in my skin finally relaxes
Everyone around me in lapses

Coffee forms the swollen cheeks
With history's ...

The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The Becoming

...VI.

We are all metric modulations
of our former selves—changing time signatures
mid-measure, learning to count
in odd meters when life refuses
to conform to 4/4 expectations
fi...

Im Not Ready

...I’m not ready to say good bye,
I’m not ready to say good bye to you,
No matter what you say I know you put a wall up to protect yourself again. But I’ll word double time to let you know I’ll never ...

Flying with a broken wing

...Across the sky at end of day

I watched as birds set off home

 to roost. Straight home with no doubt

Direct through pink flush sky but look

One bird at the back desperate

Flapping doubl...

My Life: A Week of Years

...
The Biblical book of Genesis poetically recounts the undetermined time of creation as happening in a week of seven days.  As I look back upon life, which has gone by so quickly, it seems that eight...

Trying To Escape the Emjois

...Larry was rowing his novel as fast as he could
Trying to escape the emojis from Donner and Good
The evil faces were trying to climb onboard his boat
The islands in the distance remained fairly rem...

Going After Her Sailor

...A shimmering siren hovers sixteen feet below the ocean’s surface
Her Macral fins glide effortlessly, as she slows down her activity
The ocean liner is but two hundred knots ahead; she feels humbled...

I Should Have Known Better

...I have my second graders coloring cutting and gluing.
It is taking them quite a bit of time. They are chatting too.
This is counseling class, I encourage socializing.
I arrived five minutes early ...

And Then There Were None

...Something is going on in the crime novel section.
I hear slamming and shrieking and then silence.
Mr. Pine had been the last patron of the evening.
He had left fifteen minutes ago; I was alone now...

Maybe You Are Not Wrong

...When you hear the scary music, get out of the house.
When you hear glass breaking, run like hell.
When the guy in the Jason mask runs after you
Run faster!

When you think there are monsters und...

Spatial Temporal Lobbies

...I suspect Albert Einstein's mathematician wife
taught spatial Left
and temporal bicameral Right Al
to feel the passing
and surging
spatial ebbing and temporal flowing,

Circling
and spiraling...

Threes

...I think that I shall never see
A number lovely as a three

A three who oddly touches two
Against the number’s even view

A three that looks at four all day
And to the seven far away

A three...

Her Pulse Leapt Out of Her Vein

...Astral eagle is back to take Samantha to exotic places.
In Dubai she finds her prince again; his brown eyes are smoldering.
Samantha is in Nirvana; this world better than the other one
Nothing dis...

Secret Police Are In Kansas City

...My ideas are in hiding 
Afraid of the secret police
For they are in Kansas City
My poems are not wanting to goosestep
I hear glass breaking
It does not wake me up at first
But when it does I am...

My Nightmares

...My ideas are in hiding 
Afraid of the secret police
For they are in Kansas City
My poems are not wanting to goosestep
I hear glass breaking
It does not wake me up at first
But when it does I am...

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