Wrappers Poems - Poems about Wrappers

Alarm Clock

...An alarm clock. 
On the edge of the nightstand. 
No one came after me the whole night.
Except the skin of my thoughts. 
Shaking but nothing. 
It’s like I woke up and ate gravity and passed out a...

Girly-Girl

...Crown of gold curls in rainbow wrappers.
Girly-girl, at two, favored to be beautiful.
Eyelids delight to be painted baby-girl green.
Dolly’s lascivious lashes soaked in black ink.

Innocent stra...

Dust Trees of Manila

...They planted trees but forgot their water.
Each leaf a wrinkled newspaper clipping
from a world I never subscribed to.

Noise here is curated.
A choir of car horns, a sermon of drills
but I hea...

BEYOND THE VEIL

...

Handicapped by charades,
A cacophony of voices
Comes from the real owners of the world
Who gather, roar, and whisper in a coven.

Wolly bat and tongie dog
Adorned with black wrappers
Teeth...

The Shape of Absence

...And I remember the rain before it ever started—
the smell of asphalt humming like old vinyl static under my ribs.
You were talking about birds, maybe,
or death, or the last time your mother called...

Ugly Plastic Fern

...Doctor’s office
The fern in the corner is plastic
They couldn’t afford silk?
There is nothing refreshing about it

There is a candy jar
The old guy has been up there six times
I know because h...

Still Blinking

...Cornfield aluminum recycled communion wafers.
We drank Gatorade wine from a stolen lunchbox,
sat Indian style in the irrigation ditch,
reciting Tool lyrics as scripture.

My IPhone had a cracked...

By the Side of the Road

...Drive down a highway and look left or right
And I can, for sure, guarantee
By the side of the road, resting there in plain sight
Will be plenty of garbage to see.

Plastic bags strewn around or ...

A version of you

...A version of you I loved and one that will always be mine—  
While you speak to me with words now,  
I looked at you with feelings inside.  
You greeted me with a nod,  
While I spread out my arm...

Echoes of a Silent Shore

...Echoes of the Silent Shore

Garbage, raw sewage, needles,
syringes, food wrappers.
Plastic, cans, bottles, trash,
oily sand, old fishing line.

I stand on the shore and I see
waste and destru...

The Kea

...“We must feel glad that, for the moment, the kea has been saved to amuse us, surprise us, even annoy us and damage our property, and cheekily remind us that land was not made just for the benefit of ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

...
there's a second ocean
sprawled like an accident,
a spill of plastic guts and chemical veins
choking what swims,
suffocating the tides
that once dreamed of moonlight and salt.

we did this.
...

If I were a child again, I would learn to draw worlds from lines and curves of dreams

...If I were a child again, I would learn to draw worlds from lines and curves of dreams,
To breathe life into paper with colors intertwined in a silent and pure symphony,
But as an adult, I don't eve...

Change the Time and Place

...Change the Time and Place

We're running, running forever, cross the beach, cross the misty field. 
Where are we? 
We don't care. 
The damn daisy ring? 
The damn daisy ring.
You kneel in the g...

Incidental

...Countless wrappers were strewn in the yard
and the sugar was kicking in hard.
All Hallow’s bequeath? 
A new set of teeth 
that would max out his dad’s credit card....

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