making a vintage Valentines Day Box
...I collect the ingredients to make a fine valentines box
lacy white paper doilies, silver gummy stars, vintage valentines
a crisp new Sketchers Box in pristine shape
Elmer’s glue, a stapler, marker...
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Categories:
sketchers, granddaughter,
Form: Free verse
Lakeshore drive and Goethe Chicago
...We suddenly strolled down Lakeshore drive
facing Goethe street named after Wolfgang von
Goethe famous German poet just at the crosswalk
while waving to the hidden Walter Payton
nooks wandering...
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Categories:
sketchers, allah,
Form: Kyrielle
Art Deco Costumes Why Not
...Let’s make art deco Halloween costumes this year, she said.
What are they? I asked. I do not like spending a lot of extra time.
Do a little research, she suggested. You’ll figure it out.
The easie...
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Categories:
sketchers, halloween,
Form: Prose Poetry
Kissing Girls
...I think of my sexuality
The same way I think of chemistry class:
Pretty often,
And with a definite air
And complete and utter confusion.
I believe I had exactly one day
Of sexual conviction-...
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Categories:
sketchers, angst, humorous, kiss, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Brutality In Honesty
...I’ve noticed the popular opinion-
Aided, of course, by all forms of media
From novelizations to song lyrics-
That high school boys
Are cuter, smarter, and nicer.
Now, I’ll be the very first to a...
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Categories:
sketchers, courage, growing up, high
Form: Free verse
I Found Oz
...Sickness fueled my hallucinatory
Visions of Dorothy in red sketchers
The Tin Man had a heart that beat
So loud it was like a marching band
And the Scarecrow with his IQ became
President of th...
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Categories:
sketchers, imagination,
Form: Bio