Nursed Poems

The Son of the One-Breasted Woman

...With one breast
you nursed him, Amazon.
The other, cut away,
to aim at males.
The hours passed
with bated breath,
listening to your moans.
As you fed,
you killed,
and for another prey
you h...

BURPS

...Miriam Millicent Mannerheim-Merps
Loved calling her two younger brothers, twerps
After she had her first child
Both were very sweet and mild
But when baby nursed, they crooned her with burps.
...

levels of it

...
stubbed toe / during a broken heart—
you said pain is pain, offered to kiss both.

we nursed the plot of a favorite episode,
argued over what constituted foreshadowing.

talking to you about ...

A Defensive Action

...How fortunate that I, correctly versed,
knew hand-grenades are passive. At their worst,
they maim and kill. But this is interspersed
with usefulness: defenders have no thirst
for carnage. Since t...

London

...Shoreditch clung to its ruin
Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses
And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields,
The shepherds rambling onwards,
The herders with their slow-moving cat...

Poetry I've Written

...I see myself in lines of poetry I've written
flying and crawling, laughing and bawling,
winning and losing, breathing and dying ~
as a river current meandering where I choose to go
moo...

THE SNOWS OF LOVE

...



It was a very cold day I was tired all afternoon,
I felt the need to sleep and I took to my bed,
I double checked the stack of diapers,
because I knew you would arrive soon. 

Outside th...

LOVE ONE ANOTHER

...
We grew up with a love for nature
In messages from the trees, the flowers…the ocean we discovered our salvation…
and once a feeling imprints onto your heart and soul…
It leads to a lifetime infa...

Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea

...Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea...,

yielded following resultant fiction,
which arbitrarily selected thread
first popped into my head
considered one among many pos...

Mothers-Yours-Mine

...An image of a bottle feeder attached to my brother’s cage,
his crib - a newfangled breast without arms; only the arm
of an anti-motherly technique sold by the public freak.

I laugh, loads. I kno...

The Bitter Seed

...
I sowed a seed in shadow's gloom,
A whisper nursed within my room.
Its roots grew deep, its branches wide,
Yet still, my secret lay inside.

Beneath the moon, the tree took shape,
Its fruits ...

A dumpster fire

..."To the White House he strode," sang his choir,
The elephants sparked a dumpster fire,
His words became its fuel,
Deceit was his tool,
While the donkeys cried foul: "He's a liar."

We need no D...

Autumn Side Of September

...In the middle ages
these roughed and scuffed decades
between newborn crocus -snow-melt-nursed- and
dried hydrangea blooms sepia-skinned and papery thin
I earned the right to wear sapphires
and b...

Who Is My Neighbour?

...Who is my neighbour? Asked you, a supposed expert in law
Did he know that testing you is like a Babelian flaw?
Being Christ, you knew well that his faith was like a dry reed.
With a breeze of comm...

Corinna Translations

...CORINNA

I come to sing of heroes' and heroines' courageous deeds.—Corinna translation by Michael R. Burch

Mount Helicon, father of fair offspring, friend of the wayfarer, beloved of the Muses!—...

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