Short Pinprick Poems

Carrier frogs with bags. Pigeons across desert highways. Love. Live....

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How unlucky
a pinprick
from a needle
cast in a haystack
into world made smaller
than it seemed....

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There were tiny clouds
in the bathroom. I could see
the glimmers from a universe
of air and bubbles, 
inside my reach,
pinpricks in the
transparent air.
I dream I am so small
I can live my life
of travel and romance
on a pinprick planet
floating over a bathtub....

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My arms hug my knees
in that wet warmth
and hold my thighs against my baby belly.
I'm blind--
floating away from the pinprick of light.
Living forever within a moment of drowning;  
Moving further into the abyss.
I fall backwards in time--
I shrink to that moment before I exist....

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Oh, to have skin that's thick and tough
Where nothing's really strong enough
To penetrate and cause a wound,
Too thick to even be harpooned.

Some lucky souls are built that way
And keep life's stings and barbs at bay,
Protected by such armored skin
That nothing hurtful trickles in.

Alas, my skin's like cellophane;
Each minor pinprick causes pain.
An upgrade to a thicker hide
Would help slough off my wounded pride....

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