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O Lamy, my Lamy!

- Remember: No good comes of Walt Whitman – O Lamy! my Lamy! my lovely pen is gone; The pen has written every word, the letters sought not done; The book is near, the bells I hear, the people all … Continue reading

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Method of Loci

for Marie Your name floats, fades. Not actually you just the you I see in bits and bytes Your name, hovering, bifurcated. You are in parts. Crisp sheets, bone white, scratchy, not tucked Perhaps a blanket or two, warmed or … Continue reading

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With

Fill these empty spaces These interstitial echoes of wheres we’ve been. Here is the crucible Opening before you, Incandescent. See this sandpaper scar, this winsome grin. Here are my arms Here my lips, parted Here is my short-gasped breath

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Sodium

I imagine Your face bathed in the diffuse orange glow of a sodium street lamp The curvature of your jawline casts sharp shadows You shrug into a light leather jacket Where are we going? Your only answer a slight smile … Continue reading

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Winter Wind

It seems today is the first day of winter I turned my back away, thinking I would not feel the chill of your leaving Still, it blasts through me. Your heart full to bursting I wasn’t there to wish you … Continue reading

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Right Now

It seems I will never sleep again Or else sleep too deeply for the rest of time Today I hate Sundays because Sundays are a day of goodbyes My soul is raw and tender with your leaving We created the … Continue reading

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Hibernia Burning

Words won’t let me settle I held you under water My lips covered yours to steal your last breath I have been Cassiopeia tumbling inverted through the winter sky I have been Hibernia burning yet nothing all along.

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To Speak Without Speaking

Let us have this conversation, then The one that begins in separate rooms with averted glances. Let us cross paths as less than strangers In great wide swaths and arcing patterns Thank God for passageways. Every word is a strategy. … Continue reading

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Catch-up

Autumn smells sweet when it rains. In a chill autumn rain, I chased toothpick boats down gutters. “You’ll catch your death”, she screamed at me from a gaping doorway. All the faster I ran. If I could catch my death, … Continue reading

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Economist

Corded muscles and a tight-lipped grin “I’m listening,” says the set of your shoulders. Oh, it’s not listening I’d like from you. My tongue slipping along your jawline unbuttoning, unbuckling, unzipping. I undo you. As I undress you, your eyes … Continue reading

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