At the Ends of Your Stanzas
...be careful
when you
invite new
metaphors
into your
fresh built
box of a poem.
a small
house is
perfect
or a poet
that has
few silver
words left
in their
pocket.
lower ca...
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Categories:
wainscot, adventure, art, cool, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Heartroom
...a giddy wainscot, a torn curtain
that big flowered raises the dust;
you left stern-legged this place
and left me at a broken window,
so please do not turn around...
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Categories:
wainscot, angst,
Form: Blank verse
The Alchemy of Sugar Cookies
...On strange days
like these
baking cookies
is an arcane art.
For it is winter outside
how we transform
the inside
into mystic summer.
For i know the golden ratio.
i have surrounded
myself with gradu...
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Categories:
wainscot, art, fantasy, food, religion,
Form: Free verse
Precursor
...Cerise clouds
picot
the mallows
edging
a wafer
of earth.
Distant mallards
volute the evening,
wainscot
the vault
of season--
a lattice
of lavalieres
mulling a sky
blanched as gin....
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Categories:
wainscot, art, loss, nature,
Form: Free verse