Long Crosswalks Poems

Science can’t save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks for the summaries.
I was teaching Shakespeare’s 92nd ridiculous sonnet
to my...

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Late in life I struggle against my insignificance
When I should enjoy the freedom from performance before an audience.
Applause is happiness but if they withhold applause, embarrassment.
When Da Liu put me to work crunching hexagrams and...

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Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
What are these objects in your frames?
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
Why must they gotta be the same?

    Cars and busses, traffic lights
    Bicycles...

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Tree Stories

She asked me about the trees

and I laughed, remembering the times I saw her eyes sparkle through the leaves on every single occasion of when I told her what I humbly named "tree stories"...

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out in the county and up the highway
anger hangs like lost voodoo over Miami
dances on bumperstickers
floats on airwaves
scars faces with perpetual glares
colors perceptions darkly
alters moods and
drives young men to football coaches
then army recruiters

anger that beats...

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Days are much concrete at times, with a soul too obtuse.
Nothing happens inside ,to calm down a pain, or to diffuse

I let the faces, I love the most, leave, one by one
And waited for the...

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After dining at the finest of Maw and Paw restaurants
Frequented by men in trucks
Outside I slipped on the gravel drive
And as would be my luck

The LARGE cowboy belt I'm so proud of
Latched on and then...

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It began as a lovely September, 2001,  at least, it should have been.....
somewhere lost in the crossfire, between summer and fall
days growing short, and evenings long

But, things now warped into a sense of surreal....

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Theory of everything
Absolutely everything
Feast for the senses fit for a king
This is the glory of which the angels in heaven sing

The mathematics underlines the façade
Beneath which there is visage of very God
The extension of vortex...

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Night and Forest


This june night it was brighter than my bedroom.
The silvery lit rock in the forest
Was glittering like my stickers
In my scrapbook.
The forest was dense, deeper than I could see.
The road was close by...

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ANGRY      MAN

I have no problem with drunks, druggies, husbands who beat their wives,
Asinine youths shouting too loudly, parents who neglect or spoil their children.
These guys make me feel good ...

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Kissed his student.
Punched his friend.
Accused her lover.

What if China's navy asserts control where our navy also patrols?
Should we concede the South China Sea? Not on your life! Or maybe.
Lives may be lost but so what....

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You can acknowledge the emptiness at the core of your being
or go crazy when the world goes crazy.
The numbers of us overwhelm, 
an impending tsunami, 
my hopeful eulogy about our responsibilities to each other, 
2...

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In wonderment I walk with the day  
billows blowing  
noticing not,  
a beginning nor an end  

lost in the mist of the rain  

I pause at the crosswalks  
filled...

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standing in the center of this room
once shared between two
becomes one, sealed
behind pixels 
clasped with cottonwood

your sundress reveals 
my poem
hung across rosemary shoulders
of soft smile echoes
whispers of rain across your cheek

we walk crosswalks of brokenness
careful...

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Cornices, and Gargoyles with eyes turned low,
hold fast the passing in a frozen stare
as slow vapor rising from vents below
is churned by soles into thick city air.
 
Undeterred, the well-heeled leather bottom
wingtips fly past sandaled...

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