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Best Poems Written by John Fleming

Below are the all-time best John Fleming poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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fingernails cut
     with pocket knife
        dirt too deep
          to scrape
       his grandson
             held
       his thumb
         like a warm
               wooden toy

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Habit

I wish I could
            Taste you
    then spit you out
     My love is addiction
   I touch through habit

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Hung

Sweating
               he hung
       a swing
    between two live oaks
    Striking
               he hung
       a chain
    between two black hooks
    Swinging
               he hung
      his hands
    between two strong roots

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Slipping

Slowly slipping
  around my rose bush
   plump, red tongues
    wet to the ground
  remember the taste
of the high, green stem?

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Spoke Rattles

White bike
          spray painted
                 by dad
         but the spoke rattles
       and hot pink reflectors
               were all hers
          heard and seen
              she made sure
           but when I last
                saw you
        when we last spoke
             we were nine

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Spin

Moving in small spaces
                 day after day
               the same turns
                from up here
        you seem to spin and spin
             clean shiny gears

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Wind

She threw it down
               but it didn't go out
           and I watched the wind
               cherry her cigarette
           he pushed her skirt
               well past the thigh
           blew back her hair
               she closed those eyes
           taking one last draw
        he danced over the trees

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Into the Stars

In crazy lines
       the wheat was cut
       the farmer thought
             aliens but
       late one night
             he hid awake
      and found two boys
         with hoe
               and rake
        he ran them off
              into the stars
        he ran with them
              into the stars