Category: Illusion
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How Zappa met Suzy Cream Cheese
You climb out of bed, put on a tee-shirt, sweat pants and a ball cap Walk to the corner store, buy coffee in a styrofoam cup Lady at the counter tells you to zip up Instinctively, you reach down and zip your pants She barks you could have turned around to zip your pants You…
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Translucent rags
After everyone had gone home only the pulsating glow of embers remained. I watched a possum walk through the yard. A woman appears in the chair next to me, wild hair, dressed in translucent rags that moved in a wind I could not feel. She says the moon is beautiful, I reply I cannot see…
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What if
What if famous magazines who publish poetry, only gave the author’s name on a website after you filled out a critique? What if we didn’t know the author’s name, whether they had ascended into the clique; literati who wrote with the right amount of ambiguity, verbosity and anger, conforming to the latest styles and forms…
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The Myth of Wade Hampton III – Part I
He danced with all the ladies sword at his side metals on his chest a fine bushy faced fox at wartime cotton patch cotillions When hounds were heard howling his name across the river he tucked his tail and fled into the woods and fields Yipping in shadows until Rutherford leashed the hounds the dandy…
My husband's poetry 