Long Spread eagle Poems

He had watched her for two years
patiently waiting for her to grow up.
He knew all her movements, what
made her laugh, all of her moods.

Soon now it would be time, their time
together. She would be fifteen...

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His real name was Cliff...
But we called him
Cleo Van Hoppenburg,
Better known as "Uncle Cleo",
To all who did love him...
Though not quite normal of mind,
He was the center of attention,
You probably know the kind...

Favorite phrases...
"Ho, ho,...

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she was born in a gutter her mother was a whore
 selling junk in her trunk in back of the store
 she grew up on the street
 no shoes for her feet
 over time although...

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Perhaps the stifled conversation, the contact Of Bodies

Or the Building and Spitting and Swearing

The Light, the graze of many Nameless finger-tips

Or the tenderness, which in the end, Deciphered Nothing.

The words addressed and loved by Someone,

But...

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Your feathered words arrive tickling my ears
The tip of your nose brushes
The back of my neck
My skin awakens

I have been calling you
Calling you back into my consciousness
My heart 
My soul

Speak to me.... let me hear...

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Goddamn smartass squirrel goes through a window and starts slapping a plush toy. 
Turning it over and over.
"You got jacked, !"
Up on its attention antennae, sealed in clover.
Up for all comers, winters and summers, 
Springing...

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Bought at an antiques store for a song:
unframed print #225 of 750, signed by the artist
Number III of the family name, all painters,
(presumably) Those forbears hard to discard--
"Stay Awhile" its title, hospitably captioned by
a country...

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I wanted to age graciously,
Serene, ladylike and wise,
But I get confused and muddled
And I've come to realise

Things happen to me,
That takes me by surprise
Everything unravels before
My fading eyes.

I cannot enter a room,
Without tripping at the...

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ICE         NINE

The sourceling of anti-matter,
morphed in, a slithering form.
From Darkness's anteroom chamber-
The wormhole, in escape-
The place where disobedience was born.
A
  S
p
  i
r
  a
l 
staircase,...

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A billowing curtain
brushed at my face,
as barking dogs
your steps did trace


With baited breath
I waited in tremble,
and with a hefty knock
my door did rumble


Pulling myself
from out of the chair,
I was shaking to fall
half way there


Hand on...

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We drank cheap beer in a rusted out shed.
Buzzing before our 8:00AM English class.
Trying to be cool- to fit with the "Ins."
Instead, were becoming the wobbling outcasts.
Spinning further out from the golden Ins.

Ah the golden...

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I lay spread-eagle in a field orchard; 
Surrounded on four sides by long-grown, green grass
On a dry, October's noon. Nonchalant.
I watched a small squirrel climb a tree, close; 
The branches shaking violently still.
With a soft...

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Acing awesome atomic axel jumps
Baffling backflips and butterfly jumps
Completing camel spins and cross strokes
Dance jumps, dance lifts and death spirals
Eclipsing extensions and edge jumping
Fearless heights for fan spirals and flying spins 
Gracefully gliding across galactic...

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I recall days long departed
When I was just a kid . . . 

O, how I loved Mother's garden
I would run in the sun and play all day
Down paths now vanished . . ....

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oh, how I loved my mother's garden
where I would run and play all day
and in the nearby forest explore with father. 
often, I would lay spread-eagle on the grass
and sometimes I would creep among...

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Abandoned soul lost in a tempestuous storm
Cascading raindrops stream down the window pane
Oblivious is she to her own mournful wailing
Leeches line up to lay claim on their investment
Darkness falls soundly, hollowing out the pit of...

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Dig if you will a hole
Of you and I engaged in a kiss
The dirt on your nose tickles me
Can you help me
Can you dig a hole

Dream if you can a backyard
A field of yellow in...

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People go along in their life and then bam. Dead. Deceased. Kaput.
Survivors sit by a headstone and talk to them. I am not kidding!
They are not in there, folks.
Their body is nothing. The soul is...

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I recall days long departed when I was just a kid
oh, how I loved mother's garden
I would run in the sun and play all day
down paths now vanished . . . 
I would lay spread-eagle...

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Just a saggy-sad dumbfounded Basset Hound
Got claimed at the doggone-it lost puppy pound
Just hangin' out now and nosing around
Waiting for my supper to get back from town
Hooray! A dog's life for an ole' English lass

Can't...

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Was it Mercury in retrograde,
Or the moon in Capricorn?
Did my horoscope predict this fate?
Was it destined the day I was born?

When love let me down
I was walking the track
With a train coming on,
And a bullseye...

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Against the wall, down the street, 
cuts on my face, brick scraping cheek. 
spread eagle I stand, accusations to my head. 
"Pollution of the system," accuser said. 
Graffiti on the wall, message reads: 
"An injustice...

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Trouble with the motion
is the fact that your devotion is pointless
it is void and so joint less
I am seeing nothing but pain
I am seeing nothing but pain
I am seeing your face in vain
I am thinking
where...

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I was speeding down the e-way in my Chevy pick-up truck,
When I spied a person laying there and I feared that she’d been struck.

Her body was splayed spread eagle out in the middle of the...

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