Alphabet City

I wish I was 
a wisp of wisteria
winding to entwine 

once wound we would 
while away the day

I twine clockwise,
…you?

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I cannot protect you from it forever, but I can shield you from it, at least for this short while

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I can see the marks left by her lips 
on the glass of the picture frame

where she kisses 
each night 
good night 
his forehead

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You know who ruins the world?
I’ll tell you who ruins the world…
adults

fucking adults
ruin the world

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My thought wafts in the smoke,
a tiny dolphin behind 
aquarium glass

We exchange a smile
before she turns,
swims away

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I see clearly
in the glass before me,
birds in flight behind me
and autumn leaves 
criss-crossing

windy rat-a-tat flutter
of windows shades' slats
in silhouette

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She spoke
in well-constructed phrases,
semicolons, commas, all
silken nakedness
under her camisole,
her parted mouth
a perfected ellipsis,
the race to her heart - 
a dash.

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original pub. 8/18/2013

I shall deface this virgin field of 
beautifully textured cold-pressed paper with 
primal scribble atop primary colors

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Whenever you have an Epiphany about yourself, consider it a perfect time to clean out your clothes closet

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There in the distant autumn,
the sound of bluejays on the wind
atop a heartbeat, a pulse - 
ceasing to perish, a refusal
to ever say goodbye,
caws fade with flight, despite 
all aspiration to the contrary 

an echelon 
a vee…vanishes 
all for one and all but for one 
becomes the single point
upon which we all converge 

in time in sky we find
those similarly winged 

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