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Best Poems Written by Lazarus Boxer

Below are the all-time best Lazarus Boxer poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Calico Crumbling

Strand by strand 
Piece by piece 
Your calico house 
Slowly. Then quickly. Unwinds, unravels. 

Once your palace, your bastion, 
surrounded by the trilling of birdsong 
And the deep humming of the earth 
It is empty now, and threadbare

We try flames and quiet vigil 
Prayers, hopes, guttural desperate desires
Whispered to the weighty confidences of your pillows
That once held that beloved head of yours 
Through the dark night 

Nothing, no thing,  
Can consecrate your carefully carved out dreams 
Nor a well intentioned paw or a stray’s cast off hair 
Can melt, pray, scratch, stitch, join them back together 
Into what you once took joy in 
It is lost. As you are. 

The loom now lies cracked and creaking
Scrap in the wind 
Under gums and smoke and billowing sky

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Icons Disintegrate

Icons disintegrate and views
Long looked upon, now
draw their blinds tight 
Against warm air's tattered breath 
Whose crumbling words and sighs are stuffed between folded pages
Where shots ring out and
At the corner rounded
misadventures end

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Flipping Switches

On sight. On smell.
My body betrays me 
Every hidden switch flicked
Every pulse and button jammed
What is this bag of bones for,  if not to run and run and run from you
Even if I want you gone
out of here tonight
Eyes lock, screws turn
The heart weakens and the mind
rolls over 
to what the rising day holds

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Home

The wick of home, green 
Against dark rich urgency
Smaller, sharper, 
Each, every thread sings
Out into crystalline air
With lungs roaring, sucking, gasping 
for this

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For the Best

Last Oblivion growls 
and stalks upon edges
freshly cut
With steel and shining clarity 
She comes calling with wanton,
bedroom eyes
And promises numb notes
Which bellow deep
in amongst the echoes
'for the best, for the best'