Icebox Poems - Poems about Icebox

Country side

...**The Country Kind of Love**  
In the beginning, there was a love that blossomed in the heart of the countryside. We would lie in an old hammock, sheltered by the sycamore trees, feeling the cool br...

Deep Freeze

...Late January
and the sky is an icebox.
The rind of a once fat possum
litters a park path,
It is not a place to linger.

Ice pools gather,
the water inside them
grows grinding teeth.

The je...

The Live-in -- Part 1 of 3

...Six months gone now since that dark night, I was kitchen-bound for a bite
Hoping I in icebox there a slice of pumpkin pie could score –
While I searched, I heard a ringing, an insistent ding-a-ling...

The Freeze

...January digs deeper into snow drifts.
Chill fingers cripple backbones,
make us walk like matchstick men.
February is just a name we give to tomorrow,
as if we could open that icebox
to see if th...

Remembering the Saturday Special

...hot dogs,
baked beans Saturday special
Leontyne Price sings Aida
with stereo clarity
Ma makes a box cake
Duncan Hines yellow
steamed up kitchen windows
let anybody know
life is happening
her...

Sibling Rivalry

...The child was getting tired of being teased
Words flowed from her brother's mouth unfiltered
Had he more vocabulary he'd spew. 
She didn't care on that morning if she pleased
She went to the ...

Icebox Disaster

...Icebox Disaster
Only living son
Home from steamy jungles of New Guinea
Wearing strips of a Master Sergeant
Tales recounted from Australia – Sydney R & R –
In spear points and javelins;
Malaria ...

Darken Kitchen Plight-No Food In the Cupboards

...The light shines but it's. Dark
The tree has skin its bark
I walk into the kitchen and it's closed
There's no food in the icebox or the cupboards
Still let's have lunch
The darkness gla...

Snow Blind-

...By the grave I saw blacken snow flakes
Lightning flashed as I witness
Drawn down from blacken purple skies
Burst of brilliants, winter blast snow blind
Upon a midnight electrics static...

Arctic Seasoned Disguise

...~

Winter breathes in sepia tones along a lonely two lane street
divided amongst the sweeping frozen dunes
now forced into shouldered amnesty

Street lights shiver in snowcapped bonnets
wh...

Strange Grief

..."STRANGE GRIEF."


the cigarettes 
are gone, 
the meats are 
rotting 
in the icebox, 
the city lights 
hear me 
but know this 
isn't 
asking 
for 
anything.

you're more 
than what 
...

New Partners To Kiss

...she doesn’t know I left my urge          up in
the icebox      under the roof     on the floor
of the consulate’s attic           it’s pretended
anymore like a terrifying     war     between 
two...

Rules of Dispassion

...

Look   ...   but don’t touch
Touch   ...  but don’t taste

Taste   ...   but don’t enjoy
Enjoy   ...   but don’t ever show it

A dispassionate display,
cold dish served on an ice tr...

Wastrel Summer

...The cloying sangria
of freesias
invades the screen.
Amber bees whine
in wastrel air
like breezeless fans.
My shirt 
is porcelain skin.
I dangle one metronome leg
off the arm
of a wicker cha...

My Siblings' Father

...MY SIBLINGS' FATHER
         JUDGE BURDON 


other children feared monsters under their bed
i feared the one living under our roof.
his hair was nimbus black 
with a storm's thunder in his voi...

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