Month: May 2026
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A yellow heath
The yellow glow of rude health Dried blood barcodes my face Colourless all red, save slight eyewhite Like a patch of grass-pocked snow in a ditch the sun never hits I live there and always will Stem which never wilts finally gives. If I scream she will think me less manly and I will leave…
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Salted beautiful
Across the table She blocks a shot, as only lacrosse players are able Decisions to make like the end of an episode of First Dates Menu perusal offers a flimsy stasis; The man I scored against during our Christmas truce Tomorrow I will aim blow away. This month, too many stars in Mars to avoid…
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Duel measurer
My deloping heart ere first to fire Love a cold fire low and constant Two shot harts loping in concert Circling their killer, painting bloody loops Carving furrow by dragging hoof. My heart aloof A fast starter Woofs at bark, I target The wrong tree. Braced, face covered ‘Gainst resultant sparks
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Fontchecker
A busy scholar full of time and curious bother Happened across my mossy hovel one morrow Right nasty and gross, rotlogged. Better works blazed below size eight typefaces Which only he, fox-graced, could trace. Great care changing and rearranging Yet caught despite.
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Wrap palette
I mugged God in a refuse-clogged laneway one rainy day. Imitation’s face always pale The impossible mimicking of my unwritten fragment Found nowhere else, yet there in chalk upon the flags, Walked over unread then washed away when it lashes. In our pale-pigmented canon Imitation as rape flattery.
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