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Poetry in my head by SkyeJC
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Poetry in my headby Skye J Cardoz
Just expressing my mind.
Washing Day by MichaelPollick
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Washing Dayby Michael Pollick
she never once minded the dust, as he carried them both into town, his mind filled with thoughts of discounted hardware.
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Makebelieve Ballroom by MichaelPollick
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Makebelieve Ballroomby Michael Pollick
and when all that remains of our dimestore dances are scuffs on aching linoleum, I shall consider you carefully, and know that we were gods once.
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Sea of Reeds by MichaelPollick
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Sea of Reedsby Michael Pollick
My gas-stained hands touch her steel, and for a moment all the world seems unemployed. (I stand in a hole reamed out by greedy oresmen, and silently wait for their own...
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Pearl Killers by MichaelPollick
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Pearl Killersby Michael Pollick
The Allegheny is an ancient river by most standards- You'll find plenty of evidence that shells once ruled the Earth; It was on this river that my Dad used his firs...
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Auxilliaries by MichaelPollick
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Auxilliariesby Michael Pollick
The five older ladies have poured their tea again, And look to each other for recognition. This has been quite a summer, yes it has, And Charles and William and my boy W...
Petty Theodicy by MichaelPollick
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Petty Theodicyby Michael Pollick
Theodicy is a philosophy which examines God's apparent silence during times of human need. I wrote this piece as if God had returned to Earth and no one even noticed. T...
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Gate Knowledge by MichaelPollick
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Gate Knowledgeby Michael Pollick
This is where the desperate stitches begin to take hold - In the wary edges of unproven cloth; In the delicate fears of virtuous women, In the fevered robes of noble sol...
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Breath of a Child's Undoing by MichaelPollick
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Breath of a Child's Undoingby Michael Pollick
Spring and breeze and such were oh so powerful then- I fiddled and I fiddled and I fiddled while Rome was still smoking; I danced and I whittled and I climbed and I gigg...
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Plane Wrecks by MichaelPollick
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Plane Wrecksby Michael Pollick
Leaving Iowa behind simply cleared the mind of many a pop idol; Farmers' sons and factories' daughters loved to twist and bellow, flaming out to immoral race records...
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Pinaud's Tonic by MichaelPollick
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Pinaud's Tonicby Michael Pollick
Five disabled dollars later, this man is cleansed- Briefly allowed to borrow some human sunlight On another stranger’s bench.
Love and Lagniappe by MichaelPollick
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Love and Lagniappeby Michael Pollick
This is how easily two stiff souls can learn to bend, And pivot around the mulberry times Like dancers, defining their time and space.
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Brother Judd by MichaelPollick
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Brother Juddby Michael Pollick
The fish could hardly be expected to remember us- Two sleep-dusted Ohio boys, working a pole with Brother Blake, methodically plinking the glass of Heritage Lake.
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Crusader Rabbit by MichaelPollick
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Crusader Rabbitby Michael Pollick
I picked up my first stray when I was five, and it promptly died. He was a fine catch, as strays go - Strong in spirit, eminently playful, relatively grateful; But he so...
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Urim and Thummin by MichaelPollick
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Urim and Thumminby Michael Pollick
Your tattooed stigmata is showing, my dear- that spot of willful blood lies dormant; while greedy hosts of Angels draw illicit lots, and seek redemption in performanc...
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Snapshot:  Kittanning, Pennsylvania 1963 by MichaelPollick
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Snapshot: Kittanning, Pennsylvani...by Michael Pollick
Looking north up South Water street, the dying stand solid as parking meters, finding finer spirits underground than the ones they were promised.
Cleft for Me by MichaelPollick
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Cleft for Meby Michael Pollick
Four small whispers can now leave rehearsal, the last cigarette has been ground to ashes. It was once important for us to kill some Negroes, no matter how many times the...
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