The River Remembers Sky
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Written: August 14, 2025
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River answers cloud with shimmer, and cloud
with a hush that folds into silver—
a breath that rises through its forgetting,
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Categories:
unbuttons, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Dearest Ann
...Dearest Ann , today the world completes a soft, golden circle 'round the sun, and in that warmth, your name repeats as if the stars know what you have done: Loved me through the fires,
Kiss...
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Categories:
unbuttons, black love, first love,
Form: Free verse
Being Bob
...Being Bob
Bob, is just an ordinary guy in every sense of the word. Five ft eight inches tall, a little on the chubby side and has lost most of his hair. No one pays much attention to Bob, that’s j...
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Categories:
unbuttons, angst, anxiety, character, confidence,
Form: Narrative
Sugar Daddy
...she grabs me
by the stick
unbuttons my
wrapper and
begins to lick
only
to find
an old five
cent price from
nineteen sixty six...
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Categories:
unbuttons, muse,
Form: I do not know?
One Nine Sixteen Upgrade Version
...SHE NOW LAY NAKED
The spiral staircase made her high heels sing
Most elegantly, she danced from bottom to top
Pedals of roses Isled the hand scraped, oak wood floor that leads to his room
A ...
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Categories:
unbuttons, love, lust,
Form: Verse
Hunting In Hollywood
...Sweet, little blond thing,
just off the plain from Kentucky,
she’s a solid seven, no higher,
painful to listen to her
reciting lines out loud.
Wants to be an actress,
fresh-faced and eighteen,
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Categories:
unbuttons, celebrity, corruption, culture, irony,
Form: Free verse
On Turning Fifty Contest
...ON TURNING FIFTY
As my cousin turned fifty there was talk of AARP.
Two years behind Danny, I ask the million dollar question:
“What is AARP?” – “Oh you’ll find out,” my uncle laughs....
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Categories:
unbuttons, age, humor,
Form: Free verse
Living Dangerously
...A moon interrupted;
riles the social class.
A native sense comes of age.
Piercing stare becomes rarefied,
unbuttons the peaks and
kills you with a mallet.
The scared mask falls
off the...
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Categories:
unbuttons, art,
Form: ABC
Reminder
...Little white death laid on the table :
a pool of hushed silence.
Mother would not cry.
A mystic river flows in roaring heart
giving no relief to old wounds;
unbuttons the temper.
Purple eye...
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Categories:
unbuttons, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
Tomorrow
...In her bedroom, a women stands in front of a full-length mirror. She has tears in
her eyes. She unbuttons her blouse and caresses her breast. Now let us listen
to her thoughts.
'Tomorrow a c...
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Categories:
unbuttons, family, grandmother,
Form: I do not know?