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Because she was lovely
Because she was lovely.
Lovely and sweet, a soul
who cared about me
for a time. That's why
I loved her.
We once sat on a curbstone
outside a house that leaked
more water than a power
plant, we were told; and
we made a pact: We were
each the other's One.
And we were, for a time.
We had babies,
who grew up to be women,
Not cowboys. We had
few fights, but the one we had
was fun. The sex
was sweet, if never very
passionate. She said
she thought too much,
which was sweet,
too, in its way.
She cared for people,
and never cared less
than full out, which was
why I lost her.
She cared too much
For someone else.
But that's why I
loved her, too.
Still do.
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Tattered Man
1 Poem
An aged, tattered man,
stands in his mind
before the bookstore
in San Francisco, the old
anxiety hangs
on the threads and patches
of his frayed coat...
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Blades & Evolution
2 Poems
Oh! The sharp sparks
we strike: they glitter
as they flash
off each other
… or would we rather
lose our edge …
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Because she was lovely
& Love ‘ya
2 Poems
Because she was lovely,
Lovely and sweet, a soul
who cared about me
for a time...
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“Painted Veil,”
Poetrybiz &
Nugget
3 Poems
The tarp my daughter Catherine paints
to shroud a high-school-age worldly disaster,
that needs addressing. Her talent wasted
in blobs of bright light, illuminating shadows...
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The Gun & Your Art!
2 Poems
The gun lies wrapped
in a shoe-shine rag
in a box in a closet,
with a bunch of bullets...
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Church Ladies &
Love Poem: The Male
2 Poems
Don’t you just love
the guys
who use God
to jump...
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Two Women & Rebecca
2 Poems
Now you’re back again,
you who put me out
like wash on a clothes line
to slap and dry…
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Terrible Beauty, and
Roused
2 Poems
Roused at the memory of her kiss:
I feel her tongue
like fruit insider her mouth …
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Barbie Dream and
Sonnet to Byron & Keats
2 Poems
I’ll have no plastic doll for a lover,
My woman cooks with onions and garlic.
I want her wetness …
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No Time for Apocalypse
1 long poem
The final decade is about to begin
Jesus Christ is risen again.
Bury the decade in a common grave,
forget it all.
Dress for the dance
Save money for the ball …
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Three Poems:
Thief
Daffodils
Short Poems
Death claims our lovers
As a thief snatches
jewels in the night…
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Black Holes, I and II
2 Poems
"I am an explorer
sent to the center
of space…"
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My Love, I and II
2 Poems
Wyoming you are to me
white sand beauty
a land of hard edges…
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Colorado Millennium
1 Long Poem
A new round of time
spins the Mayan calendar:
the millennium is come,
another thousand years.
Colorado’s busy, bustling
engines warm.
The trucks outside
the Conoco, their drivers
huddled over coffee…
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Catherine &
“Not Marble, Nor …”
2 Poems
Even now,
at three,
parting seems
to tear
her heart
apart.
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After &
Mother’s Day
2 Poems
The world is flying apart,
gravity fails; my heart, too.
Birds fall with fever,
blue smoke rolls over
the harbor of our souls.
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