Metaphor Husband Poems

from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,

adding a...

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she's being read
notes she wrote down
              in her
    ...

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We stayed out late at night: back then;
In the warmer months of the season
We would go down to the lake for fun.

If it hadn't been...

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As I wash these dishes. 
I wash the wishes 
from these tired and ruined hands. 

I look out into the street 
with a thousand yard...

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*Image of Harvest Mouse by KK News.

In Naught Out Wins Love

Prime blooms tryst dawns dew
midst steel spires vaunts vaults blue
save roots points of view
wrought grounds...

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Echoes of us ripple through
time like stones skipped, slicing 
icy surfaces of winter waters,
thawing. Fumes fog mirrors of lost conversations
confusing things I’m certain you said...

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Devotion Poem,  Cat Steps

(Written for Jim Eslinger

Carefully I near him. He is curled up...sleek.  Eyes 
closed, perhaps not asleep.  He sees. ...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Far as the (ease) 
severely myopic eyes can see,
nothing but polluted atmosphere
where skull and crossbones
memento mori betokens beware,

especially with increasing chronology
mortality becomes crystal clear
existential crisis...

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Aah... how great the taste of water...

After lounging in bed until
late morning/early afternoon
we (the missus and I) felt restless
as garden variety buffoon
or think chrysalis itching

to...

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tweaked to pass inspection broadcast on the double
(alternately titled snafu: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive)
finds me bleary eyed stupefied
and countenance grizzled with prickly stubble
collapsed...

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Come get me all you murderers, rapists and thieves.
Come, take advantage and kill me.
Just save room up front 
for my husband will be first in...

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My handsome brown-skinned husband
was once again velvet-voiced complaining
just this morning
while I was staring
glaring at my overstuffed sock drawer,

"You are so consistently ambivalent
and reliably inconsistent
I have...

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Balance for better reminds me of a seesaw!
I sit on one side, she sits on the other, I see from here, She sees from there,...

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Stop Abusing Women 

A man saw a beautiful woman 
in white cloths 
She was going to church. 

He called her, 
pretty come to me please
She...

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