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Wiring

New shoes day
Reroutes my feet
Over longer blocks:
Bronx blocks, upper
East side blocks, various
Halts and climbs
Test the unbroken leather
For squeak and bounce.
Four blocks from home,
I dance a little then perch
Atop a tall stool to dangle
Next to Paul the electrician
Who doesn't hold a phone
But tells me how ring and ringtone
Traveled the same wire on different
Frequencies. The last blocks
Hum harmonies of street lamps,
Distant sirens, snow
Melt and glossy stride.
His was the ring.
Mine was the tone.
 
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Also I should mention that the situations and characters in the poems I post here are from my actal life. I never write about anyone here. Well, not in the last several years, anyway, and sparingly before.
 
All Imagined Teas

Paper paper paper
Finally popcorns up
Above taxtime frenzy
Taking with it one fragile page
Hand written from Argentina.
What horrible woman
Would not better have
Encased, enshrined,
Would have so carelessly
Drawered the best friend's travelogue?
Scooping treasure up, I read again
The beach, the tango, the trees
Heavy with fruit
Benind gates climbed by
Skinny boys.
Signed Susan.
 
cherries_on_snow said:
Also I should mention that the situations and characters in the poems I post here are from my actal life. I never write about anyone here. Well, not in the last several years, anyway, and sparingly before.
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Write what you know has always been my modus operandi, cheap therapy lol
 
What I Know

Mother Father Sister Brother
Filled me up with joyful music
So now my laundry is hung
Folded, armoired. Skiddy dizzy
Socks hop over cat tails into
The 1970s on rocket strings.
 
Eyes on The Side

To pass as a predator,
Begin with forward eyes.
Steady gaze almost always
Distracts from the salad
Habits of prey trying to pass
Lipstick off as blood
Long enough that rare is more
Than forks and plates.
Polite napkin laps
Skirt steak at least
Until the second date.
 
Protestant

Martin Luther managed to grow old.
Though protest should have lit him on a stake,
Celebrity was cloak enough to fold
This protestant whose conviction wouldn't break.
Progressive for the 16th century,
He argued girls should also learn to read,
But also that the Jews would bend a knee
To Jesus. Hitler ate him up like bread.
Just home from Germany, a man impressed
By Martin's revolution stood his son
To speak a thunder noone could supress.
Their names were changed to Martin from then on.
The namesake of the protestant speaks yet
Equality. The goal remains unmet.
 
001

The communist boiler
Shrugs warm water into twenty
Showers after 6 so 4:30
Water is hot, best
For peeling off yesterday
Into the hungry drain.

What callouses
Overbuilt their purpose
Those will go
Down small as sand
On loofah fibre gondolas.

Ten minutes of the boiler's
Best is enough for soft feet
To feel the planet again.
 
cherries_on_snow said:
That is worth pondering. Can one be known by words as well as one can be known by deeds? Or can one be known at all?
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Lol well do we delve into the realms of existentialism here? In this instance how well can two swperste sets of keyboard strokes laid out in the same pattern know each other, other than as simply the pattern of words on the screen.

As for words, we have defined language so that it may define us and our experiences, beyond all that what else can we know? That death is a pre-requisite to life and knowing you are living, being able to articulate that in a meaningful way so that others can feel and share with you, does that constitue as known by words or is it simply plucking the chords of a common therme?
 
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cherries_on_snow said:
To pass as a predator,
Begin with forward eyes.
Steady gaze almost always
Distracts from the salad
Habits of prey trying to pass
Lipstick off as blood
Long enough that rare is more
Than forks and plates.
Polite napkin laps
Skirt steak at least
Until the second date.
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There is an animalistic sexuality and femenine agression underlyi ng this, its deliciously intoxicating as a read for me. Like through the eyes of a lioness in human skin.
 
todski28 said:
There is an animalistic sexuality and femenine agression underlyi ng this, its deliciously intoxicating as a read for me. Like through the eyes of a lioness in human skin.
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Heh. Thank you. That is the animalistic sexuality of a vegetarian trying to pass as omnivore on a first date.
 
cherries_on_snow said:
Heh. Thank you. That is the animalistic sexuality of a vegetarian trying to pass as omnivore on a first date.
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]Ohhh sorry i missed it...... :(

Projecting again; as soon as you mentioned first date there was a function shift. I had an interpretation error, but reads better once I got past my own missed mark

The emotional function shift from agression to nervous energy was a pleasant surprise for me, hat tip
 
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X - 1 Pounce

eyes lowered, shy smile
melts into the corner
where light don't shine
too bright

sits still and yet
her tail flicks
eyes take in everything

and if you really look
you'll see her shift
from side to side,
muscles trembling

a slow, soft leap
a gentle sweep
as if it were your idea

as if it's you
following her
rather than
the other way round
 
X-2 Frangipani Blossoms

Spirit me back to
where soft breezes swirl
perfumed kisses
recall moss-green and
white-soft velvet
tinged with lip-pink,
dances in jasmine nights and
honeysuckle days bygone...
What's done is done,
the fever left behind.
 
And it aint

No Hollywood Premiere
But there are fur coats.
The perpetual craps game
Off of Adam Clayton Powell
Is suspended. Uber hums
Solid nets through the four
Boroughs, gaining
cityzens block by block.

Swallow me whole little whale.
I can pay in coals. Some hot.
 
The Fast

Ramadan toughens
Ribs to expect hunger.
Even yesterday's brief fast
Dizzied me. How brightly
Bites the empty mouth
To swallow sorrowful day
Down the wailing gullet?
Teeth sharpen to carve
Dawn into small plates.
 
Shine

Rainwalking shimmies
Faceted concrete
Hexagon by hexagon
All down the upper
West side, strides easy
As Sunday parking.
The New York
Historical Society lights
Tiffany after Tiffany
Fruits, flowers, dragonfly
Madames bright as dawn.
All the way home we steal
Shavings of other people's joys
In cheerfully empty pockets.
 
Play date

Superbowl? No. I don't
Share with salsa pals. Tuesday
Is better. Beerless. We'll
Tea tease cup lips between
Anecdotes. Name the borough.
Not Staten Island though.
Obviously. We'll come clean--
Come as we are.
 
One Friday

I cannot blame champagne,
For the bottle was generously
Shared. Even spilled.
Still, Valentine spent some venom
But nothing a little water
Couldn't fix.
 
Two o'clock

Another Sunday rivulets
Steady traffic melting down
Snow to carry what it hid
Along the boulevards, the parks,
To thirsty grates. The lace we swept
From cheeks two nights ago
Sings wet tomorrow songs
Beneath our sleeping green.
 
Three consanants

The aspirated years that starved a love
Lung deep in pockets only mapped by veins
Rise up, insurgent, forcing breath to move
Three consanants from phantom to a name.
Coordinates can find a love once voiced.
They've apps to fashion flame to rocket flare.
For years the static past enough gave noise
Enough to carve from who a when and where.
Twitch! Snitch. Betray the hand, the torch it grips.
Allow the bed to blaze against the night
Enchanted to sustain the cold eclipse
That snuffed the we we were the we we might
Have been. A promise thawed recalls its aim:
That I and You remained, yet we became.
 
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