You used her for years:
Insidious, relentless.
Narcissus dying.
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Solitude
Summer night alone
Remembering self in joy.
Angels surrounding.
The Modern Workplace
The poet as a little girl, about 1968, in Ocean City, New Jersey.
She remembers hiding in the closet
Afraid to come out for her punishment
Of nothing, really, to be punished for –
Curious, playful, childlike with open eyes
Rather than the closed ones you tried with all your might
To force on her.
And now you come at her again
In the guise of another
In this Sunday of waiting until Monday
When she must face her punishment
For simply trying her best and somehow
Not compensating for your lack.
Please don’t hurt this little girl
Again.
Let Go, Let God
Maybe projecting
Is just a Tahoe daydream
Washed onto my shores.
Real Person
I have a real heart
That bleeds from the wounds you strike
When you yell at me.
In Dutch
Painter by the bridge:
Life strokes over old canvas,
Betraying old friends.
Oblivious
Both wait for the door
While you sit warm in your car.
She shivers outside.
Life Suitcases
I’m packing my bags
Carrying them to the street
And standing between.
Free Speech
The Saudi raised hands
In victory as the flogs
Ripped his flesh apart.
Why does the spying
Of her sharing her heart’s pain
Knife her in that heart?
Let Me Drain My Blood
Let me drain my blood
So nothing remains of you.
I would rather die.
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