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Insomnia

Wide awake
and fully aware
I am swept up
in the steady fast pace
...

1.730 1 Fri,09-Dec-2011
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Stationary

I stand on the platform waiting for the train,
while the bells toll from the cathedral...

1.469 Fri,09-Dec-2011
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Mother Nature

her eyes took in
the infinite

she turned toward me

“I speak down to...

1.606 Mon,24-Oct-2011
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Medusa’s Overbite

I looked past the ripples
in the reflecting pool.

Her image replaced mine....

1.961 2 Mon,24-Oct-2011
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To Galway Kinnell

Dear Mr. Kinnell,

With the deepest sorrow I inform you
of the passing of Betsy the...

1.109 Sun,23-Oct-2011
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At Dusk

Without
direct
sunlight
to cast
shadows,
the form
and...

2.317 Sun,23-Oct-2011
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Scooter Tramps

Every night, hard core
bikers and ‘wanna bee’
warriors hold court...

1.694 Sat,22-Oct-2011
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big old dawg

sleeping outside the bar
an old chromed knucklehead engine
on a hard-tail frame...

1.958 Sat,22-Oct-2011
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The Last Words

There is an undertow.
Do not go beyond this point!
Beware,
there are gnomes...

1.914 Wed,19-Oct-2011
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Endless Wake

Death was not unexpected,
and after years of lingering,
no one took notice of the...

1.194 Mon,17-Oct-2011
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Bethel, NY 8/15/98

I sought higher ground
and settled next to the totem
of Jerry, Jimi, and Janis...

1.681 Thu,06-Oct-2011
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The End of February

They stand defiant to wind
       and snow
with...

2.312 Thu,06-Oct-2011
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Summer Writing

Whiling away
the lazy days,
waxing the surfboard
of my mind,
ready...

1.324 Thu,06-Oct-2011
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Danger: Deep Water

Do not go beyond this point!
There is an undertow.

Black frogmen leap
from...

2.174 Wed,28-Sep-2011
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Inner Circle

Trapped in the park at night,
between Seymore and Fenton Avenues
the homeboys, the...

1.417 Wed,28-Sep-2011
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One Exit

Dried blood stains
are framed
in a chalk silhouette,
a Rorshack test...

1.243 Tue,27-Sep-2011
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Reflections in a Puddle

After the hard rain, water
runoff from the street
fills a depression,
the...

1.207 Tue,27-Sep-2011

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