The fish in the closet
are wandering
Diamonds have become used to
force feeding
No wonder the stadiums
are turning inside out
I wish to learn how to swallow
this morning blindness
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- A Note to My Children About Money and Time
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- Leaving the High Country
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- Poem for the Anniversary of 9/11
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- Swimming From Cuba
- The Corona Diaries – a Short Short Story
- The Gift of Bad Poems
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- The Luthier
- The Pleiades Below
- The Road
- The Stone Ship
- The Thing That Sits in the Corner
- The Tunnel
- The Under Painting
- The Wind From the Sea
- The Word on the Street is…
- Thermopolis, Wyoming
- This is a Dance, Flo
- Tickets to See Bob Dylan
- Tight Circles
- To Raymond Carver
- To The Old Aztec Poets
- To the Young Woman For Whom No Service is Planned
- Trinidad
- Two Perverts of Piso
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- When Words Lose Their Meaning
- Wintering Over
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Another good poem. I think writing a lot is how we get better at it. Also, facing in needs facing out and vice versa. The fish in my closet are restless too.
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Thanks bro. Maybe the fish swim between all of our closets looking for hooks to bite
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How do you tell if a poem is good? With poems, you just know (with other things, one can get into explanation). And this is a good one 🙂
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Glad you liked it. I agree on knowing without thinking about it. Love love or chocolate.
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