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it just ain't 5/26/2006 some profess to know THE answer to THE question what is THE answer secular ecclesiastical THE question THE answer pick and chose theatrical tout and shill on the take an easy 0 Comments, 10 Views, 0 Votes | |
Mahmood 5/25/2006 12 yr old Mahmood Afghan village casualty casualty of war of indifference of sophistry of greed of injustice fights for his LIFE tube and dressing tied and SPREAD EAGLED on a bed his 0 Comments, 58 Views, 0 Votes | |
The Palmist 5/24/2006 hands palms up channels of existence read palm reader “a long life line” she said in her soft & delicate hands I believed tavern smoke crowning and maudlin- 0 Comments, 17 Views, 0 Votes | |
Trolling Shallow Waters 5/24/2006 We ate the road Burned rubber The years Where did they go Trolling shallow waters A thousand faces The street below Yellowing under 2 AM lamp light Strollers strun 0 Comments, 21 Views, 0 Votes | |
waiting 3/6/2006 ah , surprise package in the mail Christmas wrap and sticker and it September why so soon and who in hand without an answer forgo the questions accept and wait m 0 Comments, 44 Views, 0 Votes | |
REMINISCENT 2/25/2006 snowed under snow a state of being today am under snow flakes a diagonal easterly invitation brief , lasting only a minute or two reminiscent , north of 54 / 40 today would have shovele 0 Comments, 30 Views, 0 Votes | |
" 1943 " 2/25/2006 thought him playing dead only he wasn’t playing wasn’t breathing <br> the bed sheet , free form analogue outline head to foot profiled pharaoh , sun god <br&g 0 Comments, 25 Views, 0 Votes | |
night window 2/24/2006 Into , out of night window ah light wee dobby , sprite woodland foral fauna familial illumed surreal this gateway <br> Mentored sleep peddling tricycles riding st 0 Comments, 21 Views, 0 Votes | |
Pride's Purge 2/21/2006 of a domestic , maid and cook not the of a significant other job came with a bed for the <br> he slept in the den , on leather slipped out at night , exiting window wandered 0 Comments, 20 Views, 0 Votes | |
death in a soffit 2/20/2006 congealed blood an animal in distress no blood trail , puzzled chanced to look up blood had seeped through the overhang soffit plumb drop and splatter did not what to imagine 0 Comments, 20 Views, 0 Votes | |
Why? 2/20/2006 listen you guys we listened to his trill “why walk when we can ride, it’s like 3 AM , no buses, I’ve done it before , no sweat .” he tried a number of cars 0 Comments, 143 Views, 0 Votes | |
HELLO 2/19/2006 is this it I’m seconds away from the answer pick up pick up <br> my gut in turmoil as is its nature pick up pick up <br> is this that split second divide pick 0 Comments, 52 Views, 0 Votes | |
three in one 2/19/2006 field mouse dark grey prey tea cup size in quitch grass died <br> street corner strollers hard talk corner mainliners and pimps johns working moms <br> she put t 0 Comments, 14 Views, 0 Votes | |
machined memory 2/18/2006 a to z k to 12 collusive rote <br> omnipotent invincible predicable rote <br> complacent compliant collective rote <br> alchemized curriculum in 0 Comments, 33 Views, 0 Votes | |
warehoused 2/18/2006 unload a boxcar fast as spit got you fit <br> punch in get to work on the clock <br> noon break too tired to eat <br> hurry it up give out shit p 0 Comments, 13 Views, 0 Votes | |
white cross plural 2/17/2006 white cross plural in the sun row on row sanguine sea white cross plural on TV <br> I think of carpenters field dressing white cross plural pine crosses <br> I think 0 Comments, 18 Views, 0 Votes | |
whire cross plural 2/17/2006 white cross plural in the sun row on row sanguine sea white cross plural on TV <br> I think of carpenters field dressing white cross plural pine crosses <br> I think 0 Comments, 8 Views, 0 Votes | |
Brazil 52 2/15/2006 three river wolves on sugar loaf <br> three river wolves fled Rio ghetto bordello street gave chase <br> three river wolves bled out on sugar loaf 0 Comments, 24 Views, 0 Votes | |
vice grip 2/15/2006 takes seconals hallucinates succubi parlay win plus five let it ride <br> fades to dead in bed stranger not remembered <br> blackjack roulette baccarat craps 0 Comments, 54 Views, 0 Votes | |
hearsay 2/14/2006 on dock of the bay the eye hears strait traffic on port city quay the ear sees Plimsoll’s mark 0 Comments, 37 Views, 0 Votes | |
tree 2/13/2006 tree <br> <br> <br> its bark its wood since healed she dressed its wound pitch and gauze <br> neighborhood knowing the gossip the talk saw her less t 0 Comments, 18 Views, 0 Votes | |
devolution 2/12/2006 my brother overlooking lounge <br> leukemia warehoused pink palace <br> seventy-four stealth wise insightful <br> his sweep hand eye took in lou 0 Comments, 61 Views, 0 Votes | |
miss cain's pyre 2/12/2006 Valentine’s day Miss Caine Allowed We should make Best friend valentines <br> Enthused we drew Colored scissored pasted Then penned and penciled Hoped for best f 0 Comments, 44 Views, 0 Votes | |
Royal Flush 2/11/2006 lines where hallmarks astride ride into oblivion are disposed of year’s end <br> first the pride of the lioness her side lineage encompasses nepotism ho 0 Comments, 16 Views, 0 Votes | |
day job 2/10/2006 are you enjoying the sun said she yes certainly i’m outside and you her sought for eye looked outside saw sun and parking lot dust devils <br> she inside on the check out till 0 Comments, 13 Views, 0 Votes | |
half a cup 2/9/2006 she pours half a cup hoping his chattering hands allow him to drink feel enabled <br> he spills stains floods his saucer his chattering hands unable to steady half a cu 0 Comments, 37 Views, 0 Votes | |
Alice 2/8/2006 miller addition school yard playground played hide and seek kick the can / tag <br> chased Alice through knee-high grass laugh and run childhood tagged Alice <br> f 0 Comments, 6 Views, 0 Votes | |
choosing to forget 2/7/2006 I remember two AM whiteness tenement kitchen saturated emptiness <br> a pot of clam chowder on the stove prelude to friendship shared comradery <br> creamy boil 0 Comments, 33 Views, 0 Votes | |
dreamt wraith 2/7/2006 she goes leaves in angry doesn’t say <br> departs no room for word soundless fury <br> dreamt wraith vengeful face masks her motive <br> dream pat 0 Comments, 34 Views, 0 Votes | |
diatribe 2/7/2006 rioting world over new world order burning killing death destruction democracy coming to the neighborhood the middle east <br> living in a city short of tradesmen high 0 Comments, 33 Views, 0 Votes | |
riches galore 2/7/2006 ten million on the table in mind of those in line wishful thinking <br> time for the tooth fairy remember her too long in the tooth <br> has aged as has her wishing wa 0 Comments, 20 Views, 0 Votes | |
lottery 2/6/2006 waiting in line was behind was next <br> he turned disgusted angry not a winner <br> tore his ticket threw it away garbage was short stocky build w 0 Comments, 62 Views, 0 Votes | |
spook 2/5/2006 what’s in a name directions take Allison turn left at Mulberry <br> street sign attribute accolade the significant shakers movers <br> municipal mayor su 0 Comments, 25 Views, 0 Votes | |
the way 2/4/2006 revisited walk / aging escort as yet astride rocking its repetitive rockers pound quickened heart beat / yes / fear <br> matter of course without choice settling weight upon refu 0 Comments, 19 Views, 0 Votes | |
in the mix 2/4/2006 what fuels motivates heads on pillows get up twilight zeal on time frenetic fanatic shoulder to the wheel <br> home late / story time once upon a time latch key / bag 0 Comments, 27 Views, 0 Votes | |
hotel lobby request 2/3/2006 Please I have an unusual request My car is on the on the far side Of the parking lot I am afraid Would you walk with me Short and soaked and afraid Her hair sodden shoelaces Open face 0 Comments, 187 Views, 0 Votes | |
another day 1/31/2006 we move in concert /spheres measure length and width Thursday next we frame rebar / Friday we pour he multiplies adds his estimate / his word two thousand / materials / time since 0 Comments, 17 Views, 0 Votes | |
ascension 1/31/2006 her fingers orchestrate morning viewed ascension <br> winged rise, birds embraced her hand rose skyward <br> arced moored dawn fissure soared daybreak horizon &l 0 Comments, 22 Views, 0 Votes | |
Trickster 1/30/2006 Sun day Iridescence Craven request Restoration <br> Down time Condign Predetermined Boundary <br> Fettered Permanence Bay water drape Procrastination 0 Comments, 13 Views, 0 Votes | |
dark lady / easterly 1/29/2006 rattles picture window / insistent translucent moody dark lady becalmed strait day wanders afield returns as easterly Salome veiled dances cedar bough / Cubist bower film noir sloe- 0 Comments, 18 Views, 0 Votes | |
idle hands 1/28/2006 sand pail beaches rusted out buckets bent twisted scoops swizzle stick shovels <br> wonder / called away hurry it’s going rain patriarchal impatience intemperate ur 0 Comments, 15 Views, 0 Votes | |
monkey love 1/27/2006 he came / proposed / married indecipherable depth / shallow fathered / puttered / endured <br> she the little American woman dutiful / faithful / ignorant her forte the missionary m 0 Comments, 50 Views, 0 Votes | |
hole in the bucket 1/26/2006 cherry pick the best for the rest remedial scam test exclude testers collude infallible rectitude <br> Ritalin dose lights out wiggly fidgety Norma Jean she 0 Comments, 37 Views, 0 Votes | |
mythic men 1/25/2006 meager obits / brief / nothing of value they arrived and left / of no import never touting their successes living / dying / walled in solitude <br> one a brother / a genius / like 0 Comments, 25 Views, 0 Votes | |
Terminus 1/23/2006 Joe and a disembodied voice One Act Play chair center stage Joe a retired mechanic sits / waits Joe enters right / sits j. so this is it / what the fuck / you die 0 Comments, 96 Views, 0 Votes | |
Mewls 1/23/2006 seven years old and staked through the heart / wake diamonded puffy white satin <br> middle watch / death vigil boy neither nor / ever after boreal stand predominant <br> 0 Comments, 89 Views, 0 Votes | |
Vanity 1/22/2006 on canvas / scull open book /wine pitcher Picasso’s : the vanity of human wishes Still Life with Scull and Chair, 26/2/46 <br> and so to read sign symbol and analogue Picasso 0 Comments, 15 Views, 0 Votes | |
WE 1/20/2006 life lived theater surreal invent to disappear in cinema in silver on scenario screen <br> warren patch marquees Granville street neon early and late evening Saturday matinee 0 Comments, 24 Views, 0 Votes | |
WE 1/20/2006 life lived theater surreal invent to disappear in cinema in silver on scenario screen <br> warren patch marquees Granville street neon early and late evening Saturday matinee 0 Comments, 19 Views, 0 Votes | |
genesis 1/19/2006 on Ottawa street clapboard house backyard wire caged mink chickens grain fed swivel head peckers <br> their end a stove pipe dream their scimitar necks perfectly curv 0 Comments, 36 Views, 0 Votes | |
Conrad's Theme 1/18/2006 awkward hinged made his way past storefronts <br> out of breath stood for awhile reflected go-by <br> pushed on crab walked towards harbor <br> 0 Comments, 30 Views, 0 Votes | |
Corner Booth 1/17/2006 Coffee shop bustle Threshold it was Crossing time warp <br> Hour glass vigil Man woman Corner booth <br> Time sand trickle Resonates sad lyric Tide ebb <b 0 Comments, 21 Views, 0 Votes | |
Sandbox 1/16/2006 childhood playtime interlude illusive and chancy innocence pervasive inculcation /rote time <br> oh and ah the little ones at play nannies bench mark caretakers and mommies if a 0 Comments, 36 Views, 0 Votes | |
butterfly fear 1/15/2006 churning and ever present an archetypical presence evident shadowy substance <br> shadowing one’s self dismantling Dali’s surreal erasing Rembrandt’s line 0 Comments, 23 Views, 0 Votes | |
New World Order 1/15/2006 Down Huntenly road She rode sidesaddle Passing without sideways glance Huntenly’s river stone pillar gate <br> Her silky white scarf trailing Riding skirt fashion plate p 0 Comments, 9 Views, 0 Votes | |
municipal waste 1/15/2006 one to go then shelved blanked out dust cloak grey drape <br> feather duster purchase cellophane wrap idle sits feathered green dyed appeal persuader <br> 0 Comments, 25 Views, 0 Votes | |
stone bones 1/14/2006 stone bone moraine unearthed mastabah overburden displaced stoic Jurassic excavated crèche ice-age moraine repository dig <br> lathe smooth earth crafted stone tier weight on 0 Comments, 33 Views, 0 Votes | |
fish in a barrel 1/13/2006 he / she late what irritates surge anxiety <br> newly meet impression allowances <br> deservedly he / she unavoidably <br> truth known inconsistency 0 Comments, 37 Views, 0 Votes | |
Bichon Trails 1/13/2006 elderly man ill dressed walks his dog <br> Bichon trails <br> walks brisk clip ignoring rain Bichon Frise <br> Bichon trails <br> rain soaked c 0 Comments, 32 Views, 0 Votes | |
Bottoming 1/12/2006 blanketing overcast burden cumulus man / woman / winter solstice cumulative weight disheveled state of existence / being thin gruel Monday-cum-Sunday all day everyday darkling day 0 Comments, 23 Views, 0 Votes | |
Tethers 1/12/2006 tethered bait superfluous bleat <br> predator an instinct superlative <br> lethal intent sorely wounded escapes <br> were it man staying alive 0 Comments, 13 Views, 0 Votes | |
crack in the mirror 1/10/2006 trenching laying pipe drag line reminder <br> my youth when diesel exhaust paradise regained morning fire-up hard hat jive talk the easy flow decades <br> cla 0 Comments, 52 Views, 0 Votes | |
off shore on shore mariners 1/9/2006 marine storage perimeter chain link six feet and razor wire <br> drive way is mud way sink holes and clay drop down deep ruts <br> here no tenure nor guarantees day 0 Comments, 23 Views, 0 Votes | |
drizzle day 1/9/2006 drizzle down fortitude peopled cubicles <br> replicate tower cell windows <br> exiting certitude résumé anonymity <br> pedestrious crosswal 0 Comments, 39 Views, 0 Votes | |
Cane Toad [ the play ] 1/7/2006 maleficent intent pled refrain never again restraining order <br> he’s in forgiven he’s the prize allowances made she's now free to come / go <br> 0 Comments, 18 Views, 0 Votes | |
Runner 1/5/2006 The long distance runner Methodic runner Measured Pace <br> He runs the gauntlet Weaves the irregular path Down peopled street Segal’s plaster casts <br> 0 Comments, 56 Views, 0 Votes | |
Oneness 1/4/2006 the kitchen chair think to compare <br> the once there word and chair <br> the kitchen chair a sanctuary niche <br> the day’s end a journey rehearsed 0 Comments, 48 Views, 0 Votes | |
Whiskey Jack 1/3/2006 running late and whiskey jack walking the plank / porch rail he’ll cut and run when periled <br> just a common grey jay i say it annoys him / full stop bird payback ato 0 Comments, 26 Views, 0 Votes | |
Untitled Poem 1/3/2006 pearly grey the flotsam yesterday’s leviathans ripped from foreshore summer lay over perch <br> set adrift as dead heads barely visible they float populate the traffic la 0 Comments, 11 Views, 0 Votes | |
Lights Out 1/2/2006 trees and power lines / blow down firemen and hydro men wakened in the mix a flux / flowering mayhem <br> beyond loss of power / familiarity café window and neon sign / open the 0 Comments, 52 Views, 0 Votes | |
Street Busker 12/23/2005 find him / see him / mart / liquor store guitar busker / shade street illustration <br> opaqueness unaccounted for an enigma quite gratitude in murmured / thank you <br> 0 Comments, 18 Views, 0 Votes | |
Street Busker 12/23/2005 find him / see him / mart / liquor store guitar busker / shade street illustration <br> opaqueness unaccounted for an enigma quite gratitude in murmured / thank you <br> 0 Comments, 23 Views, 0 Votes | |
Riding the Whale 12/22/2005 day light afternoon hour heavy rapping door knock frantic neighbor the dock your bay dock / is loose is astray / floating free wave wind tide /colluding unhinging / anchor cable &l 0 Comments, 60 Views, 0 Votes | |
Winter Solstice 12/22/2005 and winter solstice and leaves without winter solstice duvet cloaking a blanketing <br> and mildewed leaves are the pool solemn in the rained redoubt curb gutter necrosis 0 Comments, 51 Views, 0 Votes | |
Street Thirteen 12/19/2005 Christmas for street teens backpack stuff miscellany toothbrush / toothpaste wash cloth / soap / socks <br> lasting one or two months volunteers pack backpacks select / knowi 0 Comments, 35 Views, 0 Votes | |
Chasing The Cart 12/19/2005 handle grip / wheels that stick not the pick of / on the lot you learn / cull before your turn <br> your following / it’s stop and go bountiful mercantilism / shelved v 0 Comments, 55 Views, 0 Votes | |
The Hood 12/18/2005 hooded mergansers late afternoon silhouettes zigzagging / investigative <br> perhaps skip tracers tracking / cleaves bay water on the run / debtor <br> light and sh 0 Comments, 36 Views, 0 Votes | |
Arabesques of Insult 12/18/2005 down the way three streets over seamy neighborhood and cheap two flights up / domicile affordable bed-sitting two hundred fifty-four square feet <br> belly of beast sucklings / 0 Comments, 48 Views, 0 Votes | |
SO 12/16/2005 man /his machines /large/small bracketed by maintenance and due diligence /insouciant Lud sputter and stall is then kaput <br> man tools exegesis slide scale precepts prior /wrack 0 Comments, 39 Views, 0 Votes | |
pay it forward squat 12/15/2005 story boards scripted outtakes strewn soliloquy floored out of focus planted blood stain street equivalent alleyway crazy <br> corner confluence wedge corner he 0 Comments, 33 Views, 0 Votes | |
Septic Tank Day 12/14/2005 A twin chamber septic tank A for the effluent B for the pump Thick foam blocks to cover insulate And fiber glass top a fashion plate Life span of the pump 8 / 12 years The twin chambers 0 Comments, 47 Views, 0 Votes | |
Misspeak 12/14/2005 voices adrift flotsam voices jettisoned rapid fire pace slow dance instantaneous choice of words would you go with me a maybe heard tease word <br> the booth man without eit 0 Comments, 28 Views, 0 Votes | |
Tipping Point 12/13/2005 Tipping Point <br> tip point knifed feeling fathom deep speak lives without healing no opportune immediacy no space space cumulative <br> centre stage table two chai 0 Comments, 20 Views, 0 Votes | |
50 / 50 spread 12/13/2005 either way 50/50 spread takes place outside Day’s Inn G : has just parked his truck , is about to register he : approaches G she : follows he he : can you loan 0 Comments, 162 Views, 0 Votes | |
hooded merganser 12/10/2005 three hooded mergansers anchor bay water morning they wind sail southward incomprehensible journey flight path and Sanskrit <br> incandescent morning light this they’re 0 Comments, 36 Views, 0 Votes | |
from to somewhere 12/9/2005 patch of earth were paths led took undiminished imagination factored in curiosity , innocence escorted to place of fascination poplar stand , winter rabbit run swimming hole , April gra 0 Comments, 40 Views, 0 Votes | |
Mad Walk 12/8/2005 predator downward spiral plummeting to kill silent until / then talon struggle prey <br> she power walks Peden Hill bone wrap / spindle thin arms dead on line of sight / up a 0 Comments, 32 Views, 0 Votes | |
Ditch WALKER 12/7/2005 crumpled crush /thin sheet metal shapeless skin form and function eight by eleven / crumpled paper skill test up and over slam dunk <br> in the basket diminution toss off anothe 0 Comments, 38 Views, 0 Votes | |
VOICE 12/6/2005 voice forgotten........ catch words...... love cues........ inaudible........ spoken........... voice the enframed..... fabrication...... meaningless...... yesterday........ 0 Comments, 67 Views, 0 Votes | |
Ship of Fools [ barque ] 12/5/2005 its two forward masts square-rigged its rear mast rigged fore-and-aft its feathered presence docked quay Styx taking aboard divesture <br> disburdened:diamond rings Rolex watches 0 Comments, 31 Views, 0 Votes | |
Pewee 12/3/2005 Western Wood Pewee [ Contopus sordidulus ] Tyrant Flycatchers [Tyrannidae ] <br> grey feathered match a wise one perched my chain link fence gate weathered it out light snow fall 0 Comments, 22 Views, 0 Votes | |
Sunburst Feathers 12/2/2005 feral kill two sunburst feather kills concentric paradigm hub centre indistinguishable death sanguine selectively spread feathered quills <br> alighting waiting out slurry storm w 0 Comments, 59 Views, 0 Votes | |
Summer Spring Smiles 12/2/2005 three days missing her picture posted no longer a name now wholesome <br> summer photo sun summer smile loved and loving resonates <br> once a still above i 0 Comments, 40 Views, 0 Votes | |
Lounge Lizard 12/1/2005 In the lounge I wait my turn my name on the green board chalked in time four PM beforehand sedation works works wonder no apprehension no visible tension taut expression 0 Comments, 42 Views, 0 Votes | |
Leaners 11/30/2005 positioned Segals pop cult stand-ins plaster cast to be imagined wherever leaning against whatever machined both hands cupping the facial rippled <br> unconscious curve releases 0 Comments, 19 Views, 0 Votes | |
mrs. m. is missing 11/30/2005 November cold front incoming daylight receding exchanging darkness an evening hastening time essential pacing searching <br> men in luminous yellow stripes seen at night stop ve 0 Comments, 32 Views, 0 Votes | |
knuckle down thumb shooters 11/28/2005 chalked asphalt shooter circles marble circle inspired recess moment ragamuffins squatting hunkering picador horsemen revering the matador <br> Redman marksman kneeling knuckling 0 Comments, 20 Views, 0 Votes | |
hot wheels 11/27/2005 she walks on hot wheels collector’s stash in perpetuity back to the future memorabilia her eight year old spinning out burning rubber laying track when the rubber hits t 0 Comments, 24 Views, 0 Votes | |
Abattoir 11/27/2005 abattoir on the hoof slash sluice bovine slaughter offal juice shank hook abattoir line dance tendon slit side of beef celebrity chuck 0 Comments, 46 Views, 0 Votes | |
SIR 11/27/2005 SIR <br> <br> duty watch , middle watch making rounds troop of sounds , booted men , metal decks checking heads , nooks and crannies shenanigans , cause for commander’ 0 Comments, 81 Views, 0 Votes | |
distraught rhyme 8/28/2005 can't go back can't reclaim change role play affliction rehearsed stage presence <br> hurried quickened pace up down level straight is seemingly radom <br> frenetic 0 Comments, 38 Views, 0 Votes | |
Ghost Dogs 8/9/2005 ghost dogs dare i name them sleeping soundly wake them <br> will i again greet them mostly big dogs two are toy <br> six alpha males three females pack wraiths 0 Comments, 36 Views, 0 Votes | |
foot steps in the sand 8/9/2005 two pair and aware traveling together in the immediate minimal thou it be <br> chance encounter circumstance and event passing phases without content <br> knowing K 0 Comments, 91 Views, 0 Votes |
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