Death
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Naked Bouquet
I will mock the tomb… / Naked bouquet in hand.
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September, 1986
Matriculation – First day’s class
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stay right where you are and feel nothing.
Satan is silent as he destroys us, / then loudly runs away from us in broad daylight.
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September Elegy
Remind me why I live here…
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Do Not Go: Erasure on a Favorite Poem
The dying wise men know / Their words had no lightning.
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there is not enough time
in catching up on a life that was lost, I’d miss the living in front of me.
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I know not where to look or stand
I know not where to look or stand… I reach for footing; find just sand.
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You begin this way:
This is your hand, these are my hands, this is the world, which is round but not flat and has more colors than we can see.
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coup de grâce
He takes his finger and puts it to my chest.
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Drove along, he did.
He doesn’t come / when you call / usually.
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Groundhog Day
The Men of MIlltown Mourn this Morn; Their groundhog, Mel, is dead.
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Inexplicable Incarnation
Who would do / This / On purpose?
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The Curtain Crashed – Sonnet XXXVII
The curtain crashed before the show was o’er, / So no one got to see the very end.
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Fish-Eye Blind
On and on, up the food chain…
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pavane funéraire
you feel alone now / but now is not forever
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blackened quiet
knowing the nature of cycles is often all that moves us forward.
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sexualdread
Out there is a world / I can choose to inhabit;
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Life Uncovered – Sonnet XXX
The unexamined life is not worth living, / And Life Uncovered – Hidden – Unforgiving.