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  • winter haiku at allpoetry
    cats footprints leading nowhere
    the toolshed's roof begins
  • jellybean john at allpoetry
    jellybean john has died
    there are no more snowmen made of walnuts
  • far star at allpoetry
    "God, there is so much of everything!"
    your voice is a stained glass window in the soundlessness of night
  • sorry at allpoetry
    i want you to fold me up
    and put me away
  • paper at allpoetry
    each day, your face surprises itself with sadness.
  • for orin at allpoetry
    up close your eyes are like the insides of houses
  • someday the parking lots will be empty at allpoetry
    9 o'clock finally the break room buzzes dismally
  • telos at allpoetry
    how we devote ourselves to the absurd / naive housewives with bloated hairdos / make precise incisions in potatos / while dreaming of sex and infantcide / their children draw outlines of animals in the sand / d
  • weight at allpoetry
    we rode to your apartment in a poignant silence. / your red pickup truck swayed back and forth / in hasty elegance. / with every right turn, my stomach dropped to my feet / forged in iron, wrought by the tenacious cla
  • heaven is a place full of kites at allpoetry
    there was a day when your eyes turned to dolls' eyes / sad, dimly conquered / and your mouth was a pitted peach / dried and incomplete / / and your clothes began to hang in a way / that a
  • four haikus about love at allpoetry
    rainy evening
    cool smell of stone
  • retreat at allpoetry
    we drove to Harwinton
    windows open, tasting the air
  • armageddon at allpoetry
    I dreamed this poem after having not written in a long time.