Yearly Archives: 2007

on the scent

Sometimes, writing a poem is like trying to reconstruct who or what has been in a room by examining the various scents that linger there: her bath soap the dog’s earthy trail zest of bacon and chedder cheese fumes from … Continue reading

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pumpkin carving

His face appeared arbitrarily: I just sank the serrated jack-knife blade into the orange eye socket, sawed away, and there he was. I was dismayed to see the dead in a jack o’lantern face, but he refused to leave, just … Continue reading

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halfway to dawn

surface blindly abandon warm pillow claw into cool almost-dark stare half dreaming child-height pathway suggestion of shirt draped on embracing chair foggy clock-face car mumble gulp surge of water sag back warm stare light-glimmed ceiling Now I hear your soft … Continue reading

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