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July Challenge - Day 31
From Why I Write Poetry
Because the long coast of my dreams is filled
with saxophones and poems
Because the long coast of my dreams is filled
with saxophones and poems
July Challenge - Day 30
From Aubade
Just imagine the hours you're
Not squandering away,
Nor the ant-like minutes frittered
With a tentative fiance.
Just imagine the hours you're
Not squandering away,
Nor the ant-like minutes frittered
With a tentative fiance.
July Challenge - Day 28
From Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Poetry
When I lie down at night
my wife says "I reek
of recycled news."
When I lie down at night
my wife says "I reek
of recycled news."
July Challenge - Day 27
From Enchanters of Addison County
Romanticism has its detractors, which is why
we lined the road with tea-lit luminaries
and fresh-cut lemons.
Romanticism has its detractors, which is why
we lined the road with tea-lit luminaries
and fresh-cut lemons.
July Challenge - Day 26
From On Cocoa Beach
You can have your sororities of pain and darkened subways.
I will give myself to the great battles of clouds and surfs.
You can have your sororities of pain and darkened subways.
I will give myself to the great battles of clouds and surfs.
July Challenge - Day 25
From Cries & Whispers
A delivery truck
backs into a driveway. The streets
begin their excited breathing.
A delivery truck
backs into a driveway. The streets
begin their excited breathing.
July Challenge - Day 24
From Special Needs
A sound, a whole sound is never a separation.
A whole sound is an angelic order.
A sound, a whole sound is never a separation.
A whole sound is an angelic order.
July Challenge - Day 23
From Calypso's Magical Garden
even the birds, stilled to a silence
by the unannounced show, a man
wearing the crown of the island
until she lets him go.
even the birds, stilled to a silence
by the unannounced show, a man
wearing the crown of the island
until she lets him go.
July Challenge - Day 22
From Thinking of Our Shame at the Gas Pump
I let two kinds of time pass through me
and shunned the dying madness of corners
I let two kinds of time pass through me
and shunned the dying madness of corners
July Challenge - Day 21
From Stand Your Ground (A Double Golden Shovel)<\em>
Your cloth is
nation, halled down or half-mast, like a deferred dream only
earthly because you strive on a path hidden by dead leaves
Your cloth is
nation, halled down or half-mast, like a deferred dream only
earthly because you strive on a path hidden by dead leaves
July Challenge - Day 20
From On Disappearing
At a glance from across the room, I wear
September on my face
At a glance from across the room, I wear
September on my face
July Challenge - Day 16
From A Lesson After Swimming
Each answer a clue.
The right words, a collection of spaces
Each answer a clue.
The right words, a collection of spaces
July Challenge - Day 14
From I'll Fly Away
There was never a sound beside the sea
Except one and that was my long sigh
There was never a sound beside the sea
Except one and that was my long sigh
July Challenge - Day 12
From Alleyways
When the moon hung
Like a swinging lamp we stalked
Their entrances
When the moon hung
Like a swinging lamp we stalked
Their entrances