The Last Trees in Slab City
...who remembers trees
when air was free from fares
guiltless
tankless
unassailable
cliches of rustling leaves
enchanted forests
infanticidal practices like nestling newborns atop...
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Categories:
topiaries, culture, environment, future, natural
Form: Free verse
Imelda of the Woodland Fae
...Imelda would spread her faerie magic
upon the many creatures of the wood;
and like a ball of soft plastic
it one day bounced upon a bunny-hood.
Young bunnies were making daisy chains...
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Categories:
topiaries, fairy, fantasy, myth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Over the Edge, Four Flights Up
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I opened the rusted iron gateway
bound in chain and wire, to find a landing
caked in muddied footprints, scattered about like roaches
Magpie shadows course the rain soaked streets
and pu...
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Categories:
topiaries, fate, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Democracy Override
...Beneath thy hills the statutes arose
Leaning slowly as the wind does blow
Topiaries swaying toward thy regime
Cutting down thy swaying trees
They aboard thy land as if a ship sailed
Th...
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Categories:
topiaries, community, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
Astrological
...A temple. A swastika. And a bean bag. Roll roll roll. A fist. A baton. A baked lemon pie. Give to a very large troll. With or without a beard is not a face without a calm serenity. And a grinning pea...
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Categories:
topiaries, analogy, birth,
Form: I do not know?