Immortality
Slighter than an atom is to the Earth
am I to the universe,
my life to the life of the cosmos.
A raindrop in a hurricane,
a rose petal torn off
and rushed along by storm winds,
a hummingbird's egg crushed by an...
Putting on Cyrano
For D.K.
Putting on Cyrano de Bergerac
makes everbody adolescent horny.
For a few weeks we all moon,
romantic and doomed.
You had a bit part
and I was in wardrobe,
but we were the stars
in our own star-crossed...
Social Drinking
I never drink alone.
Summer afternoon:
As I sit on my porch,
My fingers curled around
A sweating glass of scotch,
Chickadees sing to me
And cicadas gossip.
A shy breeze flirts, kissing
My cheek with her cool lips
Before...
Predation Proud
The eagle is old.
His feathers are greasy, ragged, lousy.
Half-blind, he blinks against the sun
he once looked in the face, equal to equal.
Hungry. He’s always hungry.
He spies a wake of vultures
tearing at a rotting...
Agkistrodon contortrix
This city's asquirm with vipers.
You risk meeting one
when you step off the curb
or turn back your sheets.
A civic group beheaded the snake
that bit poor Mr. Farmer,
and the air grew thick with confetti and heavy...
late april snow
not yet here
is here
-- sylvester hobson
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An AI Attempts an Imagist Poem
NEARBY I SUMMARIZE HISTORY WHILE STANDING BEHIND A CAT.
A man in a porkpie hat is holding a piece of pizza
and a bouquet of black and white flowers
with a pair of scissors he waves at a red banana...
No sound from the rain.
Footsteps echo
in the hotel hall.
-- Carl Bettis
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Taken for Granted
I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean, really, no fear!" -- Nina Simone
Freedom to put off fixing that taillight
on a car that still flaunts an Obama bumper sticker.
Freedom to buy one item
and...
A Disquisition Upon Pyramids
I don't believe, just to make it clear,
that space aliens built the pyramids in Egypt
or that Egyptians built the pyramids in Mexico
or that wizards built Stonehenge.
But I know space aliens exist.
Back when...
i have a question
i have a question or two
for grass blades growing lushly green
who in four months time
will break brittle underfoot
and for the mockingbird now
loud who will be then silent
and for the changeable moon
who never...
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The Rose Tree's Complaint
The soul is the missing body that would prove the crime. The corpse sings & everyone hears...