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Summer Poems: III
When I learned of what you’d said and discovered what you really are, my first thought was revenge. After my mother took you in (when no one else wanted you, and I see why) you threatened to beat her. When she was diagnosed with cancer, you told her she wouldn’t live to see her grandchild. …
Summer Poems: II
Look, every child makes a choice on some later, grown-up day to seek glory or not. Okay? For some, the voice is an inescapable ghost, assuring them: they are meant for more, to open up the frightening door, to stand where “branch” becomes “stem” and to make bets on themselves. I don’t mean to say …
Summer Poems: I
I am everything I know now (and not much else) and you are everything, too. Every word I say is like a bridge in Michigan. My hands have hurt in these last few weeks, right elbow locking and frying some ulnar nerve without real provocation, and when I stay up late or I, in distraction, …
The Ninth Spring In Denton
All night, for days: the wind blows and blows. I was so happy it was warm enough to open windows during my birthday week, that even though the wind blew and blew things all over the office and tore magnets off of our refrigerator, I did it anyways. I opened windows; the wind blows and …
Song: Folk Song #1
I know that she’s a little older and maybe that’s what made you bolder but now I’m sure your love is colder while you wait on bail I’ll bet she smiled thin, like a wire stooping as she set the fire did you maybe kick the tires before you went to jail We spend our …
If I Am A Stranger
Come, let us renew ourselves here, with each other. Normally we sit on shelves and deny that we are brothers because there’s no money in it. The best way to know who you are these days, the key is to look to others, so that you can learn a little about you. If I am …