The Gateless Gate
...Right out of the gate
the world grows eyes on the inside of time.
A banana tree as tall as an eyelash
bears bunches of fat yellow legs,
clusters of pendular legs are called hands.
Contradict...
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Categories:
unrecyclable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Moonstruck
...sitting here
looking up at you
looking down on us
watching
you reflect
that we may see
how blessed we are…
without conscience
we’ve littered
your front yard
with non-...
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Categories:
unrecyclable, beauty, imagery, metaphor, moon,
Form: Free verse
Apocalypse
...My school was named after Nicolaus Copernicus,
and the teachers asked us to sing songs about him
halting the Sun and moving the Earth.
But I could not imagine anybody with arms that long
and r...
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Categories:
unrecyclable, allegory, angst, confusion, religion,
Form: Free verse
Moonstruck
...sitting here
looking up at you
looking down on us
watching
you reflect
the day’s light
that we may see
how blessed we are…
without conscience
we’ve littered
your front yard
with non-deg...
...
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Categories:
unrecyclable, 8th grade, beauty, imagery,
Form: Free verse
More From 2000-2001
...Ode to Harris
So they showed you
the politics of poetics
showed you how to sculpt
quotations
as if discreetly yours
sure-e-e...
they told you of your godhood
at Harvard
but they cruci...
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Categories:
unrecyclable, absence, adventure, bird, family,
Form: Free verse