poems
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Poets Reading the News publishes ‘Agraphia’
A great poetry website, Poets Reading The News, has published another one of my poems, Agraphia, along with one my recent photos, Car 5 (above). I’m extraordinarily fond, and proud, of this poem. It’s about the way that war and violence affect one’s humanity. It begins with a quote from Gabriele de’ Mussi, a historian of…
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Belted Kingfisher
By substituting X for their name We begin to blue-grey a flicker rate Between eyes, nose, ears and mouth. The subject doing the describing, For instance, receives big panicked gulps And must not be allowed to employ simile Without supervision— How liberating! Now, let’s consider X a revolutionary— Stephen Dunn once wrote as much While…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 371
for Bernie lying in the end of you are all mad and we cattle—among the cattle—among the can walking along you are all made and we cattle—among the poplars on a lane along you say don’t forget the bargains are all made and we cattle among the rich with life—and you meet me and you…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 98
ONE grows only to copulata Ophrys apifera longicornis male bee It is the Caucasus Its ranges surround in autumn The name Ophrys apifera generally grows on semi-dry turf in the Hodbarrow slowly during in Ayrshire in the north Africa and Ireland similar to grows only self-pollen transfer occurs in the bee-bearing to the Hodbarrow slowly…
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“To Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel, 1509”
I have already grown a goiter in this drudgery— As water does to cats in Lombardy, Or in whatever other region it may be— Which forces my belly to hang under my chin. I feel my beard skyward, and memory On top of my coffer,and my chest like a harpy’s; And on my face all…
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I thought don’t think & did not think and killed the bug.
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trouble with mindnumbing boredom/ after feels/ condescension/ passive lust/ i’ve got to take up doodling again— #wikipoem — joseph m gerace (@BogotaHorribLe) August 16, 2014
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wikipedia poem, no. 22
black lines pushed up against the fence off Chaos you’re all trust me! i’m a crazy replies Quietess i the option U ascends AllTheArabs If deceased! That’s getting comment to damage ego missing, not laughed at! i’m a crazy replies between worlds of intellect of aggregation force Hell for then you to damage ego mistake…
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wikipedia poem, no. 21
the die like crazy. We’ve beekeepers full of colony cold in almond groves said he was that way to ban their impact once: since the first survivors weakened an apiculture pollinates many and with scientists last year’s die-off sent itself its carriers higher the bee on a steady dose of February products hardly there’d from…
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