Short Vitals Poems

Treat someone wrongly
 maybe survive
Treat them as stupid
bees leave the hive
Stinger’s protruding
vitals exposed
Phylaxis laid bare
—venom explodes

(The New Room: December, 2023) 
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My winter's begun
No more laughing
No more fun

Lifelong friends
Have slipped away
Facing bitter ends

Snow on roof
As fire fades
Vitals now aloof 

When winter ends
Will I be
Well, that depends...

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Watch the fire,
it leaps and rolls,
serenading and mesmerizing,
drawing one to its edge
defying you
to want to touch 
its blossoming brightness
flowing from log to ember
ready to sear away 
the supple flesh
  encasing our vitals....

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My dynamometer is at a two today.
Nothing is wrong with its dynamometry.
Because my perk and vitals are on one,
and my happy energy is on three.
This reading makes perfect sense to me
and my husband who has been sick for a week.
the dynamometer has nailed us slick and sleek....

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Doctor blinks, breath caught, face goes still.
“Oh,” he says, voice sharp, split.
Hands tremble near charts, numbers all wrong.
Room spins quiet, cold like a grave.
Chest tightens, heartbeat thuds, loud, slow.
How long have I lived this broken?
Sick laughs die. Fear lives in bone....

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PORTRAIT FANTASY

Some say 
You are nothing
To their searching eyes
You're just another painting

Others more logical
Go on commenting
Oh, you can decorate, 
What a nice wall hanging!

But for me, oh dear
You're larger than living
Believe me, My auricles take the strain
Of your continuous dangling

That's why my love
I succumb to guarding
Your svelte yet curvy vitals
Sitting and watching...

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  Loose teeth and wispy hair
    Shadows of memory’s cupboard bare                                                                                                                                                                                            
  Mouth open, teeth gone missing
    Malodorous breath rules out kissing

  Didn’t I see him just three months ago
    dancing a jig, cavorting to and fro
  Blink twice, turn around ~
    Too quickly our vitals shut down
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picture this
one day
me
on a wall
the wind comes
blows by
watch me fall

picture this 
rainy night
wet street
going home
i trip
mercy to my feet
watch me fall

picture this
tall building
and 
on the top
is me
i jump
watch me fall

picture this
hospital room
hospital bed
nurse says
should be dead
but im not
not yet

picture this
tuesday night
checking vitals
my pulse falters
as i die
you look
and watch me fall...

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