No More
...The slabbed ceiling tiles are becoming the patio slabs of my childhood home.
I'm highly strung in more ways than one, trying to send my mind elsewhere,
but half-buried memories insert themselves, s...
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Categories:
polyps, abuse, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Colonoscopy
...I have a special interest in telling about my colonoscopy.
The doc cheerful, secure in his specialty, colon cancer being
the second leading cause of cancer death after lung tumors.
They can snip t...
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Categories:
polyps, cancer, death, future, nature,
Form: Free verse
Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich
...Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich
revisited January 23rd, 2024
on the evening before yours truly
(the one and only Matthew Scott Harris),
a stand up comic wannabe, who
historically...
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Categories:
polyps, angel, anxiety, appreciation, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Ace Colonoscopy Doctors Kellen Karl Kovalovich and Larry Borowsky
...Ace colonoscopy doctors Kellen Karl Kovalovich
and Larry Borowsky
Though necessary to down:
four Dulcolax laxative tablets,
quaff half 238 gram bottle of Miralax
over span of eight hours,
...
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Categories:
polyps, adventure, age, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Power of Time
...I surfed upon the seas of Time
As avidly as would a mermaid,
Ecstatic and confident
That I rule over the waves
As a mighty Goddess
Well anchored in my own principles
But I never expected thes...
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Categories:
polyps, time,
Form: Free verse
News From Home
...She pulls the past together, gathering weeds,
squeezing minnows of memory through shrinking nets.
My ex-wife phones from a former home,
a village by the sea now sinking
on a shelving shore.
...
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Categories:
polyps, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Reef
...Turtle cruises the reef,
turquoise warm in the sun;
tendrils of coral stretch to
sup filtered light.
Butterflyfish and Tang
intermingle amid coral polyps,
that are plentiful appeti...
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Categories:
polyps, environment, fish, ocean, poems,
Form: Free verse
News From Home
...She pulls the past together,
gathering weeds, twisting kelp,
squeezing minnows of memory
through shrinking nets.
My ex-wife phones
from a former home,
a village by the sea
now sinking
on a...
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Categories:
polyps, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Merman-Mermaid
...MERMAN-MERMAID
Life started in Sea with water-borne cell.
Progress of evolution yields fish
Fins to swim and tail to...
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Categories:
polyps, 10th grade, appreciation, fish,
Form: Etheree
Maniacal Madman Manacled Me
...Ironclad choke hold tightened
around pencil necked geek
stranglehold noose asphyxiated
courtesy mailer daemon freak
specifically America Online
server gremlin sought out meek
resplendently at...
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Categories:
polyps, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
At the Moment of Escape
...There are many things to consider
before you Tarzan from tongue to tonsil
down the inflammatory throat of a fugitive fire
pulsing its polyps
on your living room floor;
of which, exactly none, t...
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Categories:
polyps, analogy, fear, fire, moving
Form: Free verse
I Never Wanted To Be a Mother
...pews of velcro Sunday flats
little girls in plaits and jean dresses
arms folded
heads bowed
fluttering eyes from under lashes
peeking towards blackgrayblue Brothers
in their suits upon the stan...
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Categories:
polyps, baby, community, confusion, faith,
Form: Free verse
A Single Sifted Grain of Sand
...Could a single sifted grain of sand ever disappear?
You pour ocean's capacious core into a roar.
Dolphins flip rhythmically within; echolocation's clicks You hear.
Shifting, reshaping sand slides ...
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Categories:
polyps, change, god, inspirational, life,
Form: Pantoum
Butterfly Fish
...I'm sunlight
of the deep
brightly colored
red and pink
orange striped
yellow green
black dotted
like the wings
of a flying
monarch queen.
In the sky of the sea
freely glide
tree to tree
...
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Categories:
polyps, sea,
Form: Personification
The Ocotillo Invasion
...Utah cringes as hacked Ocotillo turn carnivorous,
spitting psychoactive pollen into the atmosphere,
dusting entire subdivisions.
The victims wander,
searching eagerly for where sunlight is stro...
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Categories:
polyps, crazy, dream, environment, future,
Form: Free verse
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