Girdles and Garters
...A museum exhibit
Showed 200 years
Of clothing for women
In varied careers.
It also had items
To wear in the home –
The aprons and housecoats
Not oft in a poem.
The garters and girdles
M...
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Categories:
housecoats, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
An Elderly Man Reclines
...His wife dies.
You have seen it all before,
you can tell what will happen next.
He will recline in the home
that she has woven around him.
He will let the ivy
of their long years together
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Categories:
housecoats, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Widow
...He still fills her housecoats on cold nights.
The cat will always be the shadow of his hand.
He dwells on in this home as a recycling
of images that she swirls now with a finger
in the kitchen ...
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Categories:
housecoats, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Widower
...She still fills her housecoats
on cold nights.
The cat will always be
the shadow of her hand.
He will dwell in this home
that she wove around his recliner,
scrimshawing each thought
with her p...
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Categories:
housecoats, poetry,
Form: Free verse
An Old Man Reclines
...An elderly man's wife dies.
You have seen it before,
you can tell what will happen next.
He will recline in the home
that she wove around him.
Some warmth remains
to pad carpet slippers and h...
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Categories:
housecoats, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
The Granny Gang
...Here's a story about a gang of grannies
Who knocked over a panty hose store
They were nothing, without their support hose
And they wasn't gonna take it anymore
Late one night, at an old folks h...
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Categories:
housecoats, funnyold, old, time,
Form: Rhyme
For Rent
...there is no house of God.
but there is a single bedroom apartment of God.
televangelists asleep on the floor
the convent too, dozes -
their manic addresses bring slumber,
wearing pious housecoat...
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Categories:
housecoats, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?