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kelly-jean-rice's picture
May.06.2013
The prison wall had centered my head against patterns uncertain. Why rest And then again,  Why rest Why wait at all, And gathered further into the glimmer She rested Waited Don’t tell Don’t tell, She didn’t wait for him No. Against the prison wall Quarter inch up to heaven sake resting place...
kelly-jean-rice's picture
May.06.2013
Feel the rings on your fingers All the time All the time Feel the rings Twist them around Fix them Wear them Always Wearing them Sometimes feeling them without feeling them Bulky Chunky Heavy Rings Around the fingers Feeling them All the time Twisting them Wrapping them around and around in a loop...
kelly-jean-rice's picture
May.06.2013
Abrasion  Hits hard in the illusion  Morphing is detour-rent Bouncing is prohibited Communication is limited Stiches in the for-head Abrasion Stick filthy mouth X-Ray vision And into evening fade away, into evening fade away Into evening Fade away Into evening Fade away Control dimension...
kelly-jean-rice's picture
May.06.2013
she
Like it was I don’t know And then I said What did I say She remembers But She say’s she doesn’t And what was it That woman? At the corner store She looked peculiar Like she was going to rob the store And I left I just left And I came Home And ripped my shredded skirt off 
kelly-jean-rice's picture
May.06.2013
Striking human- stringing Being Human Clouds and beads And bringing Tranquilizing fog delicious screaming I hear Way out there Shredded packed up Noisy Noisy You are Noisy And Left valuing  Me
kelly-jean-rice's picture
May.05.2013
Am I on A level On A level that balances Perhaps I have been shown something Balancing My moments entirely So I come forth to seasons Seasons that can be meshed into a year Finally I can see A year turning into another Before me And am I on level Yes I am balancing Into solid serenity And the...
rosy-cole's picture
May.01.2013
Hawthorn - May Day, 2013     She is stark to the bone, gaunt in Gethsemane, like fibrous lightning honed by tungsten winds against inconstant skies, still tall among her peers, still proud among the juvenescent hazel sprigs and serpent's tooth brambles straining for sunlight, frantic for...
susan-sonnen's picture
Apr.30.2013
Once upon a time, I met a chicken. I cannot remember her name, but it was lovely. It was a Spanish name. She roamed the courtyard of her Chicago home, fearing nothing, for her master was close by. He told me that she followed him to the school to pick up his twelve year old son, reminding me of...
susan-sonnen's picture
Apr.29.2013
Hiraeth. I see the tulips and the red berries. The rusting swing set between the lilac bushes. One was purple and one was white. I smell the chlorine wafting from the town’s swimming pool a half mile away. My cats (different cats in different years) turn the corner of the house into the back yard...
susan-sonnen's picture
Apr.28.2013
(I think that this is a good beginning for a children's poem. :) one small beeelicits such gleefor he announcesthe arrival of spring