Tag: PoWriMo25

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Ultimatum

Foam on the shore
whose bubbles never pop
predating even prokaryote.

Stones on rocks.
Can you hear them?

When in doubt
subjunct.

A leap
into the space
the leap removed you from.
What the leap left.

Poems are for people.

Surprise in loving
like a memento
voided of memory.

Try not to tremble.
You’re still trembling.

The mosquito
flies away
with your blood on its lips.

The mosaic has faded
overcome with joy.
Has been, for a long time.
Dynamo
at rest.

Holding hands underwater
till the skin raisins
against the skin.

We make the past
to invent
what happens next.

A light shines
even on dark parts.
The pupil dilates
with the mind.

Burden, blessing,
Bad mantras.
Dusting for fingerprints
on stone sheets.

The great wave
unbreaking
had to be imagined.

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Docents

Connoisseuse
I learn by doing
what I learn
by learning
what I do

Extending lore

Candying apples
already sweet

The eyepatch
is to remove in the dark
when you want to see

You’ll need a plan
A tour guide for the city of tomorrow

Hypothetical music
or plainsong in complicated ears
from whose earlobes danglejangle
The dance  goes left the dancers right

Box
Breathing
In hold out hold
Two four six ten

When the exhalations pause what happens then?

Pantheon solves theodicy
like you were actually worried
Athabaskan vowels

Gesundheit
Cakebook

Shame

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Promissory

Writing around the world
Like a dance around a bell
Or a walk on the freedom trail
Golden road through goldenrod
One hundred and ninety-five colors

Public goods
Announce the public is good
How much you want to believe

When you quantify it
What do you put on the other side of the scale

Heartwood for a heart
Feats of strength
Graviton flex
Grieving before the loss

And the perennial lilies return

Thank you by the way
For the
We
I feel so included!

I always personalize the collective
Choose an avatar and descend sweetly
On my hazardous mistral
Glancing at the mountains

No one lives there anymore
The hermits convened
And founded this city of libraries
To make their marmalade

The economy has grown so necessary
It is the love you hold
For the parasympathetic organs
You, we,

Compliant mechanisms
Engineered to bend

When the words land the land buckles
Lamb blinks
I’ve never felt an earthquake
Only psyche on the run

It’s right to tremble
Bring tea for the understudies
The china saucers cloon at rest

Sleeping without slumber dreams without dreams

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Difficulty is a blessing

Dreamt of technology
Not what I would do with it
What I would do
With having it
With the role
Plausible nonlanguages
That old tree
That blocked the view
Was the view
I miss what I missed
How that I know
It used to be there
Unacknowledged
An idiom that once was new
These clothes someday will fit
Historical tourists
Of ancient hotels
Checking into names
Sitting by the pool cave
Documentarian
Possessed with animal patience
I probably already told you this
So can I tell you again
At home
In a rebus of misrepresentations
Dogs hear those tones
You know them secondhand
A city in a time capsule
Visit anytime
Desire echo in living relic
These acronyms are too ambiguous
Soundless as starships
Formulating sentences
The not
Tender splatter
Be kind
Even if you won’t

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Gossip

The paper dagger flails
I feed my minutes into the clock machine
Who will it tell time to? I have run out
It’s yesterday. The birds
Are looking at me
A gait, a hairdo
Designed for going to bed
And waking up recognizably myself
What happened to the list of lost things
Closed the chest just to hear the creak it makes closing
Did my eye calisthenics
Interloping among the interlopers
Then romance in the fathoms
I triple checked full cartons
None of them were empty
Cupboard immaculate
It’s a time for generosity, astrology
After the stars go dark
The guano glows and the oceans steam
Old idols come down like soggy string
Comforts
The goinghome bureau shut up last year
A dust of flour, oakwood teeth
It’s happening again
Hugged by an octopus, I propose
Now, because otherwise when?
Little tea lights are keeping dinner warm

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Invisible ink

Don’t correct me, says the panther
Or you know what will happen
No one knows what will happen
The joke replies to the punchline
I don’t get it. If it’s ten somewhere
Evening on the planet, warm rain
Is it always April somewhere else
A megalith rubs its fine rock palms
Ambidextrous heat under the void sun
Hears, edits, could but won’t forget
Loving and censorious, unspeaking unspeeches
Inside a horizon larger than the universe
How long in this reasonable world
Before you can’t tell any longer
What it smells like, traces
Gold in every nostril and canal
The gnomes claim posthumously
You can’t have it all, only the color hello
An equals sign versus a slash
Whiteout on blank page literally
Monochrome rainbow, poem without words
The lives of flowers
Mean what I say, do you trust me
Please trust me for a little while
Wind moves through trees just like always