Wednesday, May 28, 2008

poetry is not hoetry


Yes, the post title is lame, but all the better to make the post itself shine!


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wicked love was not made

for

men says

god

when he cries about

the church

that

crashed in on itself

tornado

the country we were raised in

the color

green through liquid

and

glass

that falls atop

a white fence.

your mother

was young

once

and counted coins on a dresser

top



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I am a snake

oligarchy

cripple doing

the good

dance

like the window

shade

drawn

around the curves of a woman

and her

red hips

my

love

is not worth dishwater

she sang

she

sang

and all brothers head off in mountains

with rifles

for my

neck



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the slick rain

sheets

came off the line

in

the moment of

ivy

only a moment

I’ll

be married

to the famous

girl

on

the back of a match

book

and she’ll

be skeleton

so

stringent the silence of sliced

face

against a wire and glass

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