Long Tansey Poems

THE MORTAL DILEMMA OF FAIRY TALES AND FIRE FLIES 
 

(Brandon, the world  

depends on the existence of fairy tales and fire flies, 

the simple kindness towards lesser things,	 

the magnanimity, the compassion	 

of...

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hyperrealism takes bizarre to insane
when we are right here but not in the frame
I hold all the thoughts as well as none
existentially observed by men with lab coats on

the moment of glory when all come...

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AUTUMN BIRDS 


 

Heading home, toward the sun; 

its long drawn-in breath of twilight, 

sucking the last gasps of birds 

toward its mouth, 

 

I glimpse a flock of sparrows,	 

gathered up in squalls 

to...

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THE DEPTH AND THE DISTANCE
        A story of Divorce

Because you would plumb only so deep					Final
Before returning, too soon, back to the top,
Breathing in air
And your preference to swim,
Skimming...

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White Weddings and Wet Funerals				Final 

 

When I was young,  

And the world crisp, 

Through the crystalline cold  

Of November Morning  

At the parade 

And we were all caught in the sacred...

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It is in the subtlety
And not the blunt insult, 
The threat and not the onslaught; 

The implied and not the explicit.

It is in the first gleaning, 
remembered scents of Spring
And not the direct, 

Overhead heat...

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I have had my Fill with the Lifelessness of Winter		 

 

I have had my fill of this winter, 

The lifelessness in its frost; 

Fingers stiff, face pale. 

It’s cold pain in the bone 

To...

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With the boy’s room, draped in white sheets
This whole year, like a cocoon, preserved in amber, 

She closes another album: The fossil record of their marriage, 
Steeped, in the earthen layers of clay.

Then turning to...

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I Fear the Day 

 
I fear the day 

the sheer length of it. 

It's call to actions 

and not words. 

 

Fearing it while it is 

and loving it when it is gone, 

right...

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