poetryrepairs #200 v14.05:050
L. WARD ABEL : The Economy |
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L. WARD ABEL The EconomyComing home in the outskirts are vacant lots under a changing. They had a mist hung over each of them. I surmised the fog as spirits buried under demolition liens. They rose in unison as a battleground of lows moved in primary color lines and arrows above. Funny how none of the spirits had blue sky for graves only ones of earth glass, beams and bone. poetryrepairs #200 v14.05:050 |
All the fine arts are species of poetry--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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AURORA ANTONOVIC How To Not Write A PoemSee how many chocolates you can eat Without biting into a single one 11 miniatures Gag on a sugar high See how white the faded denim fringe of your cut-off shorts Looks against your tanned thigh Turn your arms this way and that, Compare them against the aforementioned thigh See which is darker (it's the thigh, it's always the thigh) See if you can make water bead up on your forearm Count the vitamins left in your bottle sitting on your desk Play with toe ring Tap a tune on your keyboard See how it comes out looking like 3489ut9 foesdvx790eiritr9u043903 Deep condition your hair Polish your nails Take up crocheting Happily pick up ringing phone only to find Irate editor at other end Looking to pick fight Yes, you understand the meaning of deadline No, you don't need to look it up Yes, you will quit procrastinating Immediately become brilliant Write something witty and dazzling Sparkle on paper All the while vowing not to go near the candy section Of the department store again. poetryrepairs #200 v14.05:050 |
Poetry endangers the established order of the soul - Plato REPAIR: resort, frequent or habitual going; concourse or confluence of people at or in a place; making one's way; to go, betake oneself, to arrive; return to a place; to dwell; to recover, heal, or cure; to renew; to fix to original condition. -- Oxford English Dictionary TOP |
L. WARD ABEL : The Economy CRAIG KIRCHNER : Baghdad Dream AURORA ANTONOVIC : How To Not Write A Poem thank you for reading poetryrepairs #200 v14.05:050 |
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