A She-Angel is Punished For Falling in Love with Virgin Mary: A poem
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A psychotic angel rests with a knife in her mouth / behind the door of a treehouse / and wonders if she is a self-centered / pawn of His…
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Sweet peas: A poem
Violet — I always thought it smelled like hope. Fuchsia — I always thought it tasted like rose hip tea. Pink — I always thought it felt like satin. And all these colors intermingle Obscenely intertwining on the petals Of sweet peas twisting along the pavement Twining between my
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Where Civilization Ends: A poem
Disclaimer: The following poem is a parody of Shel Silverstein’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends.” There is a place where civilization ends And the hills no longer roll, only streets that sting, And there the cement suffocates sweet wild And the sun seeks revenge with scorching revile And there is
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Moving Forward: A poem
We were raised in one home, We were whole within it Together It was ours We felt a sense of ownership, of constancy It was familiar, comforting, infinite I never thought of leaving, Of saying goodbye To the memories To the pieces of me held inside
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Steam tunnel poetry, night mail and Berkeley in the ‘80s: An interview with Berkeley poet Julien Poirier
It was half an hour before Julien Poirier was scheduled to read alongside Maxine Hong Kingston and Michael Krasny on a Thursday night in late March at City Lights Bookstore when I struck up a conversation with his father and was given Poirier’s contact information to set up an interview.
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solstice: A haiku series
the sun and the moon: comrades of light, partners in temporary death. the sun graces us, brings the hopeful morning and warms our skin and bones. sunset — burns brighter, cotton candy, kerosene: day is laid to rest. the moon protects us, keeps safe our whispered wishes,
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Dry spell: A poem
Write, rewrite, tap tap the shallow keys, scratch the paper, scratch out your last ten words, leave two. Is it still writing if you erase more than you put down? Wordsworth wrote “Tintern Abbey” in his head, changed not one of those 162 lines when he wrote it down —
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Vagaries of English phraseology: A personal essay
Journey of an autistic through grammarland
My introduction to the world of academics was rather late, since I learned to communicate via typing for the first time in my life only after I was a teenager. I was stuck in a silent, noncommunicative world of autism until then. My first attempts at typing were, at
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I Sea: A poem
Flow ocean — Wash away the shards of glass in my eyes And take with you the garnet currents gurgling out of my soul. So that I can finally find solace in slumber Without seeing his face looking back at me Me Me Who pushes past men and women dressed
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Not your inspiration
Muscle Memories
But I am not someone to look up to simply because of my experience with myasthenia gravis. In fact, focusing on that diminishes my other accomplishments.
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