Category: TeamPoetry

• in the details [Emerson and his circles]

  [the patterns of fur, just around the nose
  or the way the one blue brick brushes up towards the heavens
  while one tall parsley plant pushes strong through the blinds]

  reading, on yellowed pages, how Emerson believes in circles

  yet it seems to us, young, impatient, only one line
  we’re forced to follow straight
  like accountants in green visors squinting
  patiently close
  while the numbers so dutifully march.

  we’ll realize sometime, later, that lines never end,
  and some, if they start over again, mean Emerson
  may have known better all along.

  February 1, 2012

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• all us Golightly’s

  all us Golightly’s
  with our nameless slobs of cats
  we flit from this
  party to the next

  i see how the makeup
  sinks lovingly now into the laugh lines
  around my blue eyes
  witnessing the apartment
  filling with guests
  masks and all
  in the space behind the mirror

  one arm sits
  linked with the man of accent and money
  watching close by
  an unknown writer

  when he leaves –
  don’t abandon me when i begin to push you away
  help me find
  a name for the
  cat.

  January 13, 2011

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• leftovers microwaved for dinner

  the simple flick of the light switch
  is nice to come home to. it
  lights the kitchen walls so you can
  water the Gerbers, give them a pat,
  take the leftover spaghetti from the fridge —

  the sauce you made for family
  when the apartment filled with noise
  so much bigger than the TV —

  watch the bowl spin round, round
  the heat picks every particle and bursts
  tomato in a fine spray you’ll clean
  later in the night, when you can’t sleep.

  September 21, 2010

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