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How can I write a poem for you?

Paper is too pale for our sunsets too silent for the morning stomp of smiling grandchildren too cool for warm grass, or the sunny beach of sand castles too clean for pesky spider shit or bottles on the lawn or … Continue reading

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Dock

If you live on a small island you need a boat and two docks: one here and one for those reluctant trips ashore. For years our island dock was a narrow nervous thread of plywood on pipes. Finally upper management … Continue reading

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Fountain (IBPC Honorable Mention)

I just received word that the most recent draft of “Fountain” (first posted in wordcurrents March 16, 2008) has received an Honorable Mention in the May Interboard Poetry Competition (IBPC). The poem was named Poem of the Week in Wild … Continue reading

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