St. Stan’s

I studied your yearbook,Felt you there in a room – leading –Head perched on neck adorned by a bobI trolled through thousands of newspapers.Your story shone just as your name.Toppled to your demiseI walked to your tombstone,A short measure from where the toppled was buriedYour tombstone, adorned by a bookI felt the tombstone; a loose […]

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Kindergarden

90 minutes 12 minutes –plus 3 minutes for cleanup-6 groupsgo.bingo, you get a sticker andGo, you got a bingo – flower in a pot.and go flower with circle petals bingoand goStrawberry, what color are strawberries? Do they have their seeds on the outside or inside? bingoGo, what’s your favorite animalAnd go, is it time to […]

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Everything is fake now

Everything is fake nowon social media,Reference your resources.This one didn’t finish that 14 million dollar projectThe other didn’t go to law school. But where confidence lies.

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Family History

Don’t forget where you’re from,but don’t look in a newspaper,don’t ask any questions.If you do seek answersthe familiar cuts you off –left with only keywords and search results. Maybe you should not have lookedin the databases, the newspapers,the fulton history of buffalo.But you did and atsunami of information, form and energyprojected into that space, behind […]

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Poets

I wanted to askof the old protest,while the current one was happeningWe sat in a basement listening to the consciousness suitesweeping us off are feetaloofwe waituntil next time.

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Afoot

Draw a picture of the footfor Dr. Williams. Foot muscles,are different from your hands. Try to controlyour toes –mental pain? Practice, push thebig toe downinto the ground. Push the pinky iso Kai iso with the big toe. Next push the heel  Isometricpressure down. After time your brain is freed from the torment it felt in the beginning was Logos.

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villanelle

IN CONSTRUCTION No one to fear, but me to fight,one eye in – the past, one – mouth to sayrage forward purpose, move towards the light. Though family splits, friends with bigger blights,New souls born today, old souls yesterday,No one to fear but me to fight, X humans apathetic waiting for the night,the lucky ones […]

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iso kai iso

– iso kai iso – equal and equal – balance It’s been 10 years sincemy dad lastly gasped on April Fool’s Day. My two children never met him; one was in my belly, and the other was yet to be. My son loves April Fool’s Day as kids do, which opposes my sadness, bringing me […]

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Pythian Instructions

I can not liemy muse has caressed my templesafter falling to my knees at her threshold. Anima Hilda…American English Grecian goddess…I bring Giftsof my braids,long strains of hairbunched into threeseparated, twistedI make a Vocation. I’ve seen the grey-eyed starethat penetrates,when our lenses meet,after you twist your neck, head, and chin –stretch toward your scapula –Fierce.And […]

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Surge of Energy

Ride with it when you wake up and have a surge of energy.gloomy skies colding in opposition to the spring.give it up Janus, we yearn to spring forth.A bit more waiting?before thedaffodils project up toward the always goldenand we walk upward withbarefeet.

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This form would breath downmy neck down my backtulips tipping downaway from the sunDrooping familar whispering in mytickling In theresitance moving

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