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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.
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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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...
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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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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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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.
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Surprise Makeover by MichaelPollick
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Surprise Makeoverby Michael Pollick
we tried to stay away from anything plum, which looks so garish in the cold fog of authority, as the neighbors report nothing new between those two.
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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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Foot Washing by MichaelPollick
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Foot Washingby Michael Pollick
I could never understand her need to wash His feet; I did not come from Magdalene's world, That nervous sticky world of anonymous diddling, Which mixes its shekels with...
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Oven by MichaelPollick
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Ovenby Michael Pollick
I see in her mottled skin such visions of dishwater pain, The desperately overturned second-hand furniture, stripped bare of our lunch money.
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Brother to the Dragon, Companion to the Owl by MichaelPollick
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Brother to the Dragon, Companion t...by Michael Pollick
Somewhere in the white hot core of the Dancer's spirit lie the remnants of too much vision, lies the residue of a thousand broken treaties: lies the child who bartered w...
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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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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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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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Collateral Damage Report by MichaelPollick
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Collateral Damage Reportby Michael Pollick
Let us skip, you and I, through certain half-smelted streets; where time and conscience dissolve like watches, and glass shadows catch the first sun's rays fully on thei...
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