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Category Archives: Poetry
A Shakesperean Sonnet for Lucinda on her Birthday
All stars do sparkle silently in the sky While cinders twinkle quite sonorously Our hearts beat likewise bum-ba-bum oh my! And don’t we breathe (tis true!) pulsatingly? The tide may rise and it may fall again And night does turn … Continue reading
Busy People
People…. mYsTiFy. Some I don’t get. They act like we’ve never met. They’ve plans, their afternoons are set. They work, in their sleep they fidget. Heart disease? They’ll go ahead and fret. It’s about their office and their mile-high docket. … Continue reading
The Plant Kingdom, Tonsured
Plants, sheared to a stub like corn, reaped for harvest or grasses, mowed and trees, cut of their limbs for decoration or put down for paper issue forth an aspirin-like compound into the air for the pain, I kid you … Continue reading
Jake’s Story
“Tromp” is a new word I’m introducing to the English language. It refers to the puckering lips of one in love as he kisses his beloved hello or… good-bye. The putting together of the “soft” of the mouth of a … Continue reading
Quiet Joys
There’s a quiet joy I think to my father’s jokes that are funny-but-not-really. I don’t talk when he tells them, and I put a face of one not too moved for laughter. There’s a quiet joy I think most people … Continue reading
For Moira (and Octavio Paz)
Canaries here. Canaries there. Canaries everywhere. *Aquí, Allí, Colibrí. By Octavio Paz.
Posted in Miscellaneous, Nature, Poetry
Tagged canaries, friend, Moira, Octavio Paz, Poetry
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Laid to Rest
My sweet: All matters have been Deliberately entombed and it’s a sealed deal. We must not raise the dead. Not like any of our best conjuring could do the trick. My heart, if we buried a catatonic comatose than a … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Poetry
Tagged can of worms, love, Poetry, relationship, rest, Yorick
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Red Ant Queens
Mid Julys on alternate years sometimes bring swarms of queen ants out of their nests for mating. It is the rainy season in Guadalajara. They are thumb-proportioned, devoid of wings but with powerful mandibles nail-sized. Thick bristles stick out of … Continue reading
Posted in Guadalajara, Mexico, Nature, Poetry
Tagged Poetry, queens, red ants, roast, roasted
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