Aviators

Aviators Bent steel Lenses reflective Of the river We came down On a blonde Freckled face Wearing a Camoflage ballcap And a sunburn Drenched Tank top atop Bikini swimsuit Pieces Ultraviolent From Apollo and Ra Glowing nuclear With catasrophic Power in redding Radiation That is what Is reflected

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Sorry for Being Perky

Sorry for Being Perky Red polo shirt With a name badge on I remember the candy bar And cola you bought For me A day late After My seventeenth birthday And took it to me In class I remember wondering Why? Why celebrate me? A stranger to you? I wondered inside But couldn’t confide InContinue reading “Sorry for Being Perky”

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Underwear and Boxers

Underwear and Boxers Left tangled up In the blankets After a long night Of morning In morning With the window open Because the room And our bed On our second floor Got too hot After sweat stuck To our hair And made it stiff In places Like hairspray does But sporatically We remember The morningContinue reading “Underwear and Boxers”

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Like Eskimos

Like Eskimos Two bodies arched To share warmth Like bridges meeting Both bending in rhythm Sharing each other Leaning on one another In the cold night air In a tent with a dozen blankets Spread on its floor Two loving bodies connected Continuously in sync Underneath layers of warmth Bouncing Waving Swelling With the tideContinue reading “Like Eskimos”

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Blue People

Blue People The name of the tea Was “Blue People” That you scooped Into two infusers And placed into Two cups of Hot water on your Granite kitchen Island It tasted mellow Like kissing your hands That tenderly Placed the expensive Bag of dry leaves Back into your Tea cabinet Some kind of Vitality thatContinue reading “Blue People”

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War Prize

War Prize A beanie left behind Has become part Of a small tower, War prizes scattered Among remains of Battlefront ruins. We deserted to Look For gold. From a noose chain Hung a rare painting By a dead artist, And I think now Of the bombed town who’s Rubble we waded through. Ordered, was theContinue reading “War Prize”

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Zero Discord

Zero Discord I turn over in bed to look at you. It’s dark in this room, blinds shut. Lights are off, and I’m holding your hands. Looking at your eyes, I remember hugging you earlier. I was seeing you for the first time in a while after a brisk night drive to your house. StreamsContinue reading “Zero Discord”

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Midnight

Midnight Midnight is sneaking outside Laying in fields Picking up bikes That aren’t owned And borrowing them For a while Midnight is a mirrored drive Beside a lake And walking down Tunnels of thin trees That have slowly over years Formed a sort of orange shade Midnight is telling time By streetlights And people outContinue reading “Midnight”

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