Straightness Poems

Kinda Wonky

...Wonky is nature's norm!
Our obsession with straightness,
conceived in arrogant innocent bliss,
kowtows to a belief
that adroit straightness
following straight lines,
somehow makes things strong...

Danger

...Her laugh was a sharp sound. 
It made you wonder whether she was amused or if her throat was simply incapable of making any other sound. 
It suited the heavy look in her eyes, the straightness of h...

The Lover's Dream

...I dreamed you disappeared down shore's long curve,
dipped, abandoned prints, the jealous waves
smoothed by manic curl and rushed away,
reminder of the straightness of your stride,

I dropped a h...

What You Must Go Through

...I see others stuck where I was stuck 
Self destructive in a rut 
Trying to pull themselves back up 
feeling that they've had enough  

And I know that they're facing hell 
Turning corners overw...

No Reason

...The rec was where we dug sandy tunnel dens 
in danger of collapse.There I fired my catapult 
on a group of three children some distance away 
as I hid behind a willow tree 
not far from the passa...

Rigid Straightness

...and it dawns on me
while straightness
aims for conformity
it seems to clutter
people's brains
with madeup rules of
shoulds and musts
that snowball
spitefully into
rampant
venomous
chaos 
...

Choir Dissonant Practice

...I am a right-brain prominent writer
which must not be confused with
a prominent left-brain writer,
which I am almost decidedly not
nor would I aspire
toward such all or nothing thinking
and not...

The Son

...The woman is glad for the visitor with his tidy beard and dark curls,
his clothes smell of the money he earns from the foreigners,
see how he sits so upright and successful, proud holding his stron...

Bicameral Covenants

...May supreme Force
become You.

How is whiteness
like straightness?
she asked

And how is maleness
like left-brain dominance?
he responded.

It seems, 
to usually curious
and always ancie...

Slow-Cooked Conversion Stories

...I was raised in one of those white nationalist churches,
passing itself off as a Christian evangelical Bible church,
where "evangelical" meant fundamental
and "fundamental" meant we did not interp...

Decency

...The decency.


With relation to the horizon I am a walking vertical.

I justify it by standing in a line of the same lines

near a coffee boot.

I will certainly be punished for behaving dif...

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Odyssey From Africa 11e

...Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11e, The Island Kingdom (continued)

Matto, Lisa and their parents 
Contemplated now a journey 
On the ocean that was longer 
Far than any in their memory 

One wh...

The Figure a Poem Makes By Robert Frost

...Abstraction is an old story with the philosophers, but it has been like a new toy in the hands of the artists of our day. Why can't we have any one quality of poetry we choose by itself? We can have ...

City Geometry

...CITY GEOMETRY

I’m on big town
Inserted
Yea, transplanted
Within its swaying wave
Of box and angle

Where my self-identity
Is something throbbing
Upward gazing
Arrowing
To sky points

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