Josh Poems - Poems about Josh

Cheap ale pools in a Styrofoam cup. She’s barefoot in gravel, anklet flashing beneath the floodlamps. Pickup window ajar, radio blaring “Friends in Low Places.” Her jeans slung low, hips marbled violet on the porch-swing, ash winnowing across her thighs from last night’s guttering fire. I watch the buttes flatten at gloaming, a silo blinking red— a wound stitched into the earth. She speaks of leaving at...

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TV news broadcasts the motel dark, she lies flat, belly soft with rabbit tattoos, ash smudged into the sheets. My boots drip clay and pesticide, fingers stained from counting nickels. Outside, a pumpjack bows to the ground, over and over, like it’s praying. She whispers something about escape. I kiss the scar beneath her jaw, taste motel soap and Marlboro light. The window rattles an oil train...

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Hail nails the skin. Wind stabs the spine, the mountain stretches, breath freezes the tongue, Snow visible on the summits High-altitude crumbling cracked hands claw at dry stone, Paper thin air sharp, jagged edges. Bald Eagles circle overhead Alpine sky, dry and broken— no more Earth Day vegetation Cherry Creek scrapes the sand She lifts the bedpan Chapped gloss superstar lips Cocoa fur, stained by cigarette smoke and...

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Moist sheets tossed aside soaked pillows Side by side She was wet Dime sack and tree rings Green sight meet brown peepers Plumb late April Boreal Plains humidity Abittor Unami eau de cologne Thin plain pink blanket on the window Air conditioner recirculating Salmon rays preen her face Noon spring afternoon the rain stopped the sun peeked in Bare cucumber blooms sticky seeds Hanging over pickled The...

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Stand cold 3 AM on work line, slighted, famished, impoverished, vanished, faded, hungry. Long walk down Cliff Avenue hill, US Highway, dissecting sides of Sioux. Hard day labor, sex offenders, hardened convict, roll down production line. Here I am, college degree, communication binge drink, division one university in Brookings, America. Capanelle visible 15 miles north on 90. Piece work calendars,...

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there was a man from Dublin named Josh who liked reading poems by Frost one day in the woods it was said he took the wrong path instead and ended up in Galway totally lost ...

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Lips mops caress waterfalls crash metallic nerve laughing gas confession watermelon sugar sister scissors clocks tick loud like shaved ambergris Laminated kerosene lamps illuminate Evanescence oblivious presence Skull bird knives spike of peachy creamery Pentagram ouija board machinery’ Throats chokes, nose pinched in bleached milkshakes. tiny ears buried speechless Mousetrapped. I gave it all...

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Idea of profit hope for snowflake March and November rain. Are you leading back to Rapid City or Pine Ridge? I was in the halfway house in Mitchell. Did you visit the Corn Palace or the doll shop? I heard you are in Aberdeen. I am still your dream? Symmetrical preponderance stopwatch courthouse cuckoo clock Spitting on...

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Idea of profit hope for snowflake March and November rain. Are you leading back to Rapid City or Pine Ridge? I was in the halfway house in Mitchell. Did you visit the Corn Palace or the doll shop? I heard you are in Aberdeen. I am still your dream? Symmetrical preponderance stopwatch courthouse cuckoo clock Spitting on...

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Oval day broke and hunger looking for $5 meal Walk into the discount store. Food fossils line the shelves, with beverages stacked in dusty years and bread petrified with mold, hard for two weeks. Jesus sings to shoppers from the boombox. Nero mocks Biden for losing to Caesar. They ban weed and *********** but hand...

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Steel insulation warm thin hot smooth downy shepherd smoothness. Pistol clasps palms crystal misses birching basket weavers. Fluffy firm pedestals release hard deniers. Doldrum office charts demonstrating Appendages conceal resistance. Halcyon boogie board heroes. Greek play rehearsal. ...

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Steel insulation warm thin hot smooth downy shepherd smoothness. Pistol clasps palms crystal misses birching basket weavers. Fluffy firm pedestals release hard deniers. Doldrum office charts demonstrating Appendages conceal resistance. Halcyon boogie board heroes. Greek play rehearsal. ...

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Spoon and smacks, a sweet screw and strap, Skank cucumbers, sugar's hammer bed; The donut hotdog, sausage swing to lap, A slide of neck, a drum of meat and head. Fur, nipples, pickles, bear, and bull do juice, The twine, pole, grab leather boots; Belts, handcuffs, laces, panties, and the noose, Sword, slave, lipstick, eel, antler, and the hoot. *****, tunnel, clam, purr,...

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Spoon and smacks, a sweet screw and strap, Skank cucumbers, sugar's hammer bed; The donut hotdog, sausage swing to lap, A slide of neck, a drum of meat and head. Fur, nipples, pickles, bear, and bull do juice, The twine, pole, grab leather boots; Belts, handcuffs, laces, panties, and the noose, Sword, slave, lipstick, eel, antler, and the hoot. *****, tunnel, clam, purr,...

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Leather boots and belts, A maiden’s lipstick, Handcuffs, lace panties bra, Sword slave, Wash muzzle, Plug Tongue, Eel slime plum, Snail, tornado, bones, antlers, hands. Razor clam ***** dug tunnel, Cucumber purr kitty. Brine volcano mussel worm plank, Brassiere blaze twirl shell, Palm girdle underwear, boot panty boars, hand Dug pussy thermometer! Scream spank shout! Kettle strap!! Steam lung pulse!!! ******** morgue eating crucifix breakfast? ...

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