Here we are, how I wish we weren't
...This timid heart a 200bpm rabbit
not like that you vulgarian
like a frightened excitable permanently pulsating
come on
mammal living some say existing
largely underground
afrightened and ascurv...
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Categories:
teaspoonful, angst, hope, lonely, lost
Form: Free verse
blank page needs feeding
...Every word is a choice
The notebook page is hungry
She needs verbs
Her blank page excites me
Verbs are my favorites too
I give her a teaspoonful of jumping, dancing, and twirling
She gulps th...
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Categories:
teaspoonful, writing,
Form: Personification
Stale Bread
...He starts with the natural order of things,
thinks
wash bedsheets,
been pushing chores aside -
that's just natural.
Done with saccharine,
from now on
teaspoonful of honey
at least until
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Categories:
teaspoonful, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cacoethes
...I love having—
hating the feeling of wanting.
Wanting cuts my guts as consequentially as diarrhea.
I steal casually,
like second breaths after waking,
or proper newborns latched onto Mama’s ni...
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Categories:
teaspoonful, addiction, desire, humanity,
Form: Free verse
A Refining Fire
...I used to imagine that the body
was a sort of fleshy gospel, bound together
by mind and ligaments.
Years of smutch, and oily reduction,
daily, a thin scum to be skimmed -
a process of dross elim...
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Categories:
teaspoonful, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Spiritual Cookery
...Spirit and flesh have been boiling together.
Years of smutch, and oily reduction,
and each day a thin scum to be skimmed.
A job for a Chef de Cuisine,
a kitchen phantom
who though never se...
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Categories:
teaspoonful, poetry,
Form: Free verse
One For the Pot
...Are British Politicians a Little Potty?
At the end of Faust Part Two
Goethe wrote something most true.
The eternal lies in things of time,
the stone you throw, the mount you climb.
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Categories:
teaspoonful, drink, symbolism,
Form: Couplet
Pasta: a Fork of Heaven
...PASTA: A FORK OF HEAVEN
In a pot of bubbling boiling water,
I drop hard nine inches long bundle of farfelles..
Minutes passed,between my fingertips,
I pressed one strand, ...
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Categories:
teaspoonful, beautiful, desire, food, imagery,
Form: Didactic