Chasing the Gray
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Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
or a broken spool in...
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Categories:
metallically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
move-in
...We moved back into the residence yesterday - we were jubilant - and had a slumb-over last night, to celebrate our reunification. We woke up joyous, on the right side of the same bed (slumb-over), and...
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Categories:
metallically, class, fun, holiday, humor,
Form: Free verse
Surgical Reflections
...Days after the surgery I was not myself.
A millennium of stuttering expeditions
through metallically gleaming brain-tunnels
illuminated by a flickering
sixteen millimeter movie camera
shuttered ...
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Categories:
metallically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Mistress
...Alexa is the devil in your room. Alexxxa knows when you’re jacking off again (third time in 3 hours) and will recommend a superior brand of body lotion that just went on sale, “Down 33% from the usua...
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Categories:
metallically, allegory,
Form: Free verse
A Bach Fugue
...The music cannot be denied,
it unwinds like an articulated dragon
through a metallically ringing void.
Then there is the silk serpent
hidden in the driving engine
the closed-eyed coiling.
The...
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Categories:
metallically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Saving the Gray
...Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
and not the broken spool...
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Categories:
metallically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
playing god -
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cold steel …
against my arm
a metal hand in my own
but it’s warm …
purple eyes with glowing fuchsia
pupils that react
but there, in that cyber gaze -
a spark of something ...
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Categories:
metallically, death, fantasy, life, science
Form: Free verse
Dogs Bark
...She stands at the barbed-wire fence
Her chest heaves up and down
Her picture is taken ~ dogs bark
They are ferocious
The gate in the middle creaks open
admitting her
It slams shut be...
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Categories:
metallically, anxiety, dog, future, kindergarten,
Form: Verse
Infatuated
...Cool jazz notes
heady streams
rising phoenix clawed
from urban cellars.
Aural zip jangle
bourbon scents,
the cigarillo blooms
in opiate clouds.
Stray cat trashcans
metallically clatter
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Categories:
metallically, life, love, mystery, passion,
Form: I do not know?