Captain Arcaro
...Gallop vapor folded aluminum mare resonator
Sun spits decorative decimals bleeding metal
Scatter the hourglass pearl crown tidewater brine dusk
Tongue sings driftwood bone galleys
Captain Arcaro...
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Categories:
fishbones, africa, allegory, america, animal,
Form: Light Verse
Fishbones
...She has a good future ahead of her
The roses that grow from her vertebra look to the sun
Intertwined around the marble she calls a mind
The other day she called me crazy
For we share the same dre...
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Categories:
fishbones, art, color, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Memory of Bones
...The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving dinner was hosted
the plum...
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Categories:
fishbones, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Fishbone Or Not
...Why does it feel like there's a fishbone
stuck in my throat.
A large one at that, pointy but girthy
No banana, rice, apple, idli, peanut butter mash could dislodge this one
It's almost funny,
I...
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Categories:
fishbones, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
If I Were a Mermaid
...If I were a Mermaid
If I were a Mermaid my name would be Margo and I’d live in the deepest blue sea
I’d swim with the dolphins, make friends with the sharks and hope that they wouldn’t eat me
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Categories:
fishbones, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
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“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff a...
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Categories:
fishbones, dark, destiny, dream,
Form: Free verse
Buncha Questions
...Have you ever
just wanted to
sleep while you
painted eternity bright
and dark, heart on your
left hand slant?
Have you ever wished
fishbones were
somehow the
power to bring tenderness
to the blind...
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Categories:
fishbones, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?