NO SHINING WATER BY JACK D. HARVEY
let’s throw away our past,
every blessed thing we loved,
throw it away for good;
it betrayed us
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let’s throw away our past,
every blessed thing we loved,
throw it away for good;
it betrayed us
A ballerina in a black tutu poised in adoration
As chalk-white doves perched on a wall
Pecking food from her tender outstretched palm
I slurp Campbell’s Chicken soup
smell Velveeta sandwich toasting
I would fold myself
into a thousand sheets
and strip my skin
to cloak you …
as you stepped down
from the trains.
Migrating tundra swans stream
through the Pacific Flyway.
Some say the ashen sky is common
this time of year.
A Blank Page is like a Sea of White Transfixed by its tides dragging me under The waves sway me back and forth, I am indecisive As the waves tower over me, engulfing me into the abyss I am suddenly surrounded by white emptiness...
Read MoreCapped waves break inland
with a wrath
of who knows what:
the longing of millions?
Even now, his head on my pillow, front paws held together, as if saying a prayer.
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I hardly ever notice the drone of airplanes, circling above.
Read MoreYou need a mind of winter
to endure in a land of summer…
So empty man,
who’s the happy genius of your house?
She screams like a belfry
rung by a madman
“Why are we doing this again?” Crystal sat at the dining room table making lumpia from scratch. Her fingers smelled like garlic and pepper from handling the ground pork, and her neck ached from hunching over the table.
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