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39 Stories

  • Washing Day por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    she never once minded the dust, as he carried them both into town, his mind filled with thoughts of discounted hardware.
  • Brady's Leap por MichaelPollick
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    I sit beside the Cuyahoga creek and wonder how he done it- Pursued by motivated Native Americans across the burning Midwestern grass, until he found himself caught between the Devil and the wide blue stream.
  • Pinaud's Tonic por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    Five disabled dollars later, this man is cleansed- Briefly allowed to borrow some human sunlight On another stranger’s bench.
  • Makebelieve Ballroom por MichaelPollick
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    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.
  • Atticus Rests por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    We should all sweat long enough to meet the man who beat the law of averages. This man is not the sum of his words, but the total of his actions. The books grow colder, the papers scatter, the disciples pray elsewhere; but the teacher (oh! the teacher) is still with us.
  • Fresh Butterfly Milk por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    These are the warning signs of a visceral God at work: The repressed hands become tender and forgiving once again, The calloused eyes begin to see the wonder of a thousand newborn suns, The chained heart learns to leap at the thought of angels and popsicles.
  • Cambodian Music por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    Pol Pot's deflowered now who used to ride a water- smooth buffalo and kill onetwothreefourfive million traitors Justlikethat -- Jeezus, he was an awful liar, and what I'd like to know is how do you like your despot now, mister Death?
  • Oven por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    I see in her mottled skin such visions of dishwater pain, The desperately overturned second-hand furniture, stripped bare of our lunch money.
  • Gate Knowledge por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    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 soldiers.
  • Sea of Reeds por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    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 untimely closings.)
  • Haiku por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    #1 Darkness, and what stays Falls too close to the heart-Poor enough for beggars.
  • Love and Lagniappe por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    This is how easily two stiff souls can learn to bend, And pivot around the mulberry times Like dancers, defining their time and space.
  • Believer's Guide to Drifting por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    On the one hand, we have this couple-so young, so connected, so grounded. The balloon they released together into the Memphis air held two cards in tow as it found its way between their hands and the balloon maker's place.
  • Urim and Thummin por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    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 performance.
  • Bringing the Wendy's por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    Just clang on the lamp if you need anything, mom. I'll just be lying here, thinking about how small morphine is, And how large life is going to get in six months to a year.
  • Foot Washing por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    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 blood and lies and spit, And leaves its spineless remains In the bellies of involuntary Beasts.
  • Snapshot:  Kittanning, Pennsylvania 1963 por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    Looking north up South Water street, the dying stand solid as parking meters, finding finer spirits underground than the ones they were promised.
  • Brother Judd por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    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.
  • Brother to the Dragon, Companion to the Owl por MichaelPollick
    MichaelPollick
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    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 with discount Angels. She will no longer mistake the gardeners for her Messiahs.
  • Jakarta races ahead despite challenges por jdave2274
    jdave2274
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