The Going is the Thing
Goodbye seems to implygood is inherentgood comes firstThat the leaving is most importantand therefore good. Au revoir, the French have …
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I am Not Easily Charmed
I am not easily charmedyou, with your slippery flatteryand overly kind wordsdripping from your lipslike undergraduate adverbstrying to impress withstyle …
Who Writes Poetry about Wednesday?
It’s today, WednesdayLike every other Wednesdaysitting there, harmless, in the middle of the weekHiding its true importance(It’s trash pick-up day …
The Pandemic Puppies Turn Two this Summer
The pandemic puppies turn two this summerPuppies, all pets reallykittens, fish, birds, even a house plantOther life forms adopted to …
Imposter
They call them palmetto bugsI would rather not call them at allbut the large water insect climbedonto the bed last …
Time Slippage
Slippage, a new nounlearned from Curly girl videosthe way a conditioner leaves hairgood slippage is the goalsmooth and easy to …
It’s Still Dark
All of the books about sleepand I have read many, many of them(since while I am good at several things,none …
The End of All Things
The end of all thingsis how Sam and Frodo describedwhat they saw on the side of Mount Doom. The end …
Poem a Day
Her instructions make it seem easyso much easier than Wendell’s But maybe because his instructionsare how to be a poet …
Drought
The woman in the bright pink dresswith matching lipstickand a helmet of blonde hair waves her handsand the map behind …
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