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Phantom January

She disappeared between the lines of weeks,
where the darkness of winter could hide
her glowing eyes and too bright skin
beneath wool layers thick.
A thousand million things happened at once:
appointments kept, conversations held,
money spent, acquaintances forgotten,
snow fell but did not stick.
Far in the distance an inexorable breeze pulled
her impossibly toward untimely summer,
and she melted into spring too [...]

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Entanglement

A tunnel connects, plunges through,
unimpeded by time or space.
On this side of reality I am
and on the other also,
the other me.
The mirror half blinks, turns with me,
detected both here and there.
Infinite paths I could take
and each one chosen,
each one walked.

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0
1

Minus
Neutral
Plus

Cold
Warm
Hot

Black
Gray
White

Falling
Stationary
Rising

Away
Here
Toward

Left
Center
Right

Death
Life
Birth

Male
Intercourse
Female

Lack
Enough
Excess

Pain
Peace
Pleasure

Rejection
Contentment
Desire

Conservative
Moderate
Liberal

Monarchy
Republic
Anarchy

Hell
Earth
Heaven

Reality
Perception
Dream

Chaos
Balance
Order

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Number poetry

Two nine
Four eight one
one six six four one
one three six three six one six one
one nine three six nine three six one three six one
one zero
nine
one two
seven
nine
one
four eight
one two
three
two nine
one one
two

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Haiku

ice breeze caresses
bare legs in full run on stone
goddam it’s early

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Perfect

He lives his life
in the spaces between obligation
Like the flashes of light
on the cels of a motion picture.
His footsteps are the fall of leaves to the pavement,
whispering and sometimes a clap.
He sees a woman
crossing and uncrossing her arms,
straightening,
Unsure of whether she is
in front of
or behind
the table.
A glove suspended
in the spaces between the branches
Like the [...]

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Though we once hung by our knees
in the tree’s upper branches,
every thought visible on the night air,
we were standing
on the other’s cupped hands
and gasping in the fainting breeze.
Mirage of stone and leaves,
rid yourself of that chrysalis
and its cage of fantasies.
Friend, you were never really there.
Though we once dreamt of lands
where our hands could weave
every [...]

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Sitting (a villanelle)

Slowly breathe in,
filling your lungs with the salt sea air,
and breathe out again.
The petulant north wind
with icy fingers tousles your hair;
slowly breathe in.
Push your chin
deep into your thick wool sweater
and breathe out again.
Your eyes closing,
let the sand cradle your form there;
slowly breathe in.
Above the ocean’s din,
hear the gulls cry, joy and despair,
and breathe out [...]

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Yet another Red Fish poem

(for Tanya)
What color would he turn in the sun
if his skin was already angry ruby red
and his eyes a golden fire?
Would, with all the gaiety of summer’s swelter,
he leap from his watery bonds
and dance upon the stones,
tailfin for feet,
all the hues of the rainbow
blinding, glinting, winding
back through the clear, blue sky
to the source of [...]

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