Linoleum Poems - Poems about Linoleum

...The magician wore my mother’s perfume and conjured family from thin air— a brother renamed uncle, a wife recast as mother, a daughter vanishing behind a tale of bees. Each sleight of han......

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...VI. We are all metric modulations of our former selves—changing time signatures mid-measure, learning to count in odd meters when life refuses to conform to 4/4 expectations fi......

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... they swagger in badges hallways of fluorescent lies drag me by the collar into their personal theater of power guns gleam like broken promises questions barked through gritted teeth hands......

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...There are gaps in the particleboard; quince wads fill the breaches. Nicotine newspapers underlay the linoleum. It's a rented place, he tiptoes around its yellow layers. He has a friend he visits......

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...Morality is just a word when you have the cleaver. Blood seeps into the linoleum like crimson ink. I'll love you to death, and beyond the autopsy. Your going to be a masterpiece, the face of darkn......

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...It would seem impossible for a house plant to have joy loosely rooted in a glazed bowl of nutrient depleted soil every third day fed plastic cups of fluorinated water enduring yellow, rainless nic......

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... an open channel to everywhere, here a flickering screen a faded dream a memory of color a monochrome world antennas reach skeletal hands clutching for the sky grasping at echoes all lost ......

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... ‘twas the night before Christmas at this North Carolina farm, The chickens were cackling, so the roosters, they’d charm. Never had I discerned how the stars could reflect such calm,......

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...I Miss Your LighT -BOOGIE-WOOGIE BOP- Verse 1 Boogie-woogie bop there's still time Just enough to breathe, to git it right I miss your dark grace, your golden ......

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...Henri Matisse's Studio Scattered about like fish in a pond are paintings and objects in a secluded room in a sea of red shouting out loud; Connoisseurs please enter, others not welcomed ......

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...I'm willing to worship Any girl that calls me a name other than disgusting The world is progressive But it has not moved forward I turn to face the linoleum, saying, ......

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... Mom’s Advice For Me Miracle Man Tom Wright Mothers Day 2024 Our mom was one of ten children. Her parents were farmers at a time when it required horses, mules and large families. She......

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... I clutch my breast, shattered shards of the once whole, rubble our kitchen floor, mosaic of smashed wedding gifts, failed hopes, dashed dreams, ugly mugs stained hues of......

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...Bricks through windshields, Darts through hanging pictures of me And cracks in the photos, framed on the shelf But they're not there physically My trust makes a run for the hills As the rumor......

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...In this landscape, lies a nest made of brown brittle leaves, cracked asphalt, and tire flattened filters this creature, stands broad shouldered and stupid with a flat face and eyes open so......

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