Long Jackrabbit Poems

Nightmare 8. To Lose the Gift of Feeling Heard

Is each person not poet when he spills his heart?
Has your verse lost its edge if it’s true no one listens,
Or does God mean that no one...

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THE HURDLES: 

Explain this won't be a devour,
As all this while you considered a diva.
He'd set hurdles, Eva...
Which's breeding woes and fever.
I know you understand that's not trivial,
From the university of life, I have become...

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Jump up and down like a jackrabbit
running through meadows
running from what?
Could it be heartbreak,
a venemous snake that hides in the grass,
hiding with fangs ready to pierce the tender skin
upon the tight, bronze flesh of everyday...

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September is aging with a cool beauty
and the Missouri seems to be hurrying the expedition
into a world of natural splendor that is impatient to strip our spirit to it's bare light,
in my silent moments of...

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Why, do we call it
Something it’s not
If we’re going to name things
Let’s give it, some thought

If it’s called a chilli
Then why is it so hot
And I can say this
A guinea pig, is not

A prairie dog
He...

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At six o’clock the road turned bare
as we rode through Tennessee.
From Nashville to Memphis is a long,
dark stretch of gray and brown trees
and fields where no one ever walks or works.
I’ve often wondered who owns...

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. . .
I don’t feel like doing anything. . .
And yet here I am, writing again. . .
Punctured thoughts gushing redness of frustration and disgust,
Black rivers flowing and intoxicating the remaining blemished white of reality,
Stuck...

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--Before meeting with her father & sisters, Cordelia is dealt a card depicting Woodwose by
Mor-Ríoghain, in the guise of a gypsy hag.

i.

As my sister's once-beautiful gray cat looks at me
She wasted now by a thyroid...

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DEEP sleep.  

Look down on your hammer. 
You had it for a short time but your fingers are still thick
Your larynx not as dumb as you’d like it to be
Your tongue is dry and...

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it all came on so suddenly
that even the fastest jackrabbit alive
might have had a problem getting the best of it,
but as monkey sees
monkey will do &
when the wrong person with a rebellious look in their...

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As I look out upon the desert floor, its beauty I espy.
A lizard awaits the sun to land for its’ sunning to apply.
A mother quail runs from her hole with 7 chicks in tow.
A comedy...

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Enroling  you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally -  blindfold humility
Rejected by those mocking moths
and jealously believing left the...

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Beware the morning tiger
Before his first coffee
     Look out for the afternoon lizard:
     Ectotherm on the sidewalk soaking in other people’s acknowledgement
     ...

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Today I went for a hike up a rocky desert hill
A jackrabbit crossed my trail
Peacefully hopping through his daily routine
I saw partridge birds
Consorting about over the topic of worms
I noticed the ease with which they...

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tookie winfeild was a friend of mine
from way on back down the way
back in my river days
mean old man with a heart of gold
ugly old geezer with a silver tongue
ole tookie could talk a mile...

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Hey ref, you blew it ... 
you made the wrong call!
Are you nuts ... crazy wrong,
or just trying to incite the crowd
Incensed people are calling 911 on the phone,
looks like your days of breathing air...

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Where the sky meets the earth and the highway goes on and on, a white satin ribbon snaking across a sea of brown. You can see far into the distance with no trees to obscure...

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Remember to look over your shoulder
                    Before moving to the left lane to pass
  ...

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seashake jake


headlights blinding 
screeching yellow eyed owls 

ran me over 
I washed up with anchors cut in 
whiskey drenched promises 
holy swans humming hymns of sun-god gratitude on ole beach 

mashing sweet tooth’s hungry bone...

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The highway air feels good today
Heat a risin’ like a mirror

The rattlesnakes on a low bake
Desert sand rides on the warm wind

Nature’s soundtrack like bees abuzz
A soothing hypnotic siren

A mind numbing song stuck on play
Haunting...

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The gravel grinds 
Beneath the tires of my car. 
Bumpity bumpity bump, 
Air rushes under the car 
For a split second 
Until the old rubber 
Hits the pavement once more. 
All the houses are behind...

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