poetry
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Gratitude
to wear so many rings your fingertips refuse to meet to pull up skin-tight jeans to slip on a pink tube top without being asked to find what’s in your pocket what is in your pocket? to be known for a particular hairdo to smell the way you do to be brilliant without being moved…
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Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban (Self-Portrait)
look first that’s the point how does algae grow so deeply photosynthetic am i asking you or am i muttering moon mad either way i see myself of course in that master’s eyes surrounded by all the thin cracks in the pain the crow’s feet tighten around the rosette wire at the bottom of the…
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Other People’s Poetry: “A Litany for Survival” Audre Lorde
For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a…
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‘Poets Reading the News’ publishes Wikipedia Poem, No. 620, ‘Semiogenetics, in Flames’
If you’d like to read the latest Wikipoem, you’re going to have to head over to the wonderful Poets Reading the News website. Thank you, Readers, for your support over the years. Even if it is just reading the poetry and peering deeply into the visual art, it affects me profoundly.
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Here: Have another free chapbook!
Please download and share with friends. Read it on the bus. Read it on the toilet. Read it in a cave. Read it upside down. Read it instead of watching Curb Your Enthusiasm. Read it out loud in a French accent at your next open mic night! It’s unrhymed rap music with photographs that I…
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Download the Free Wikipoem Chapbook
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Formica Office Furniture
with one finger i look up at the clock what time is it when will we worm you and me; where do we go from here to the back seat of my filthy afterthought or your candlelit cantaloupe i am careful to avoid using the word invade
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