Poems

Correlations

There are correlations

between how far you have fallen in love
and how many cars will try to hit her

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Unruly Joy

Amy Lister is
ninety percent granola
ten percent sunshine

Joseph Cumming is
six parts concrete, three parts smile
one part jackrabbit

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Tears

some tears are poems
and so are some sweaty underarms
and the slow red trickle of a papercut
can recite as violently as a cumshot

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The Killarney Bus

You fall into my arms
a victim of inertia
a corner taken too quickly
crazy bus driver

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Unscathed

and I like your cat
and he even likes me
sometimes.

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Sparrows

a bud
becomes an eye
a twig
a leg
a feathery apparition

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I Know This Man

but in my dream
as that first patient lays out on the table
and this fresh doctor
races his beetle fingers
across the pebbles of her spine
he pauses–

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So Much Sofa

…things in common
like loose change in the sofa
unremarkable in small amounts but
intoxicating if it begins to add up

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Elise

You said things like
    I don’t understand.
    I’m proud.
    I’m sorry.

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For You

When I write:
“she keeps the pieces of my life
I have tried to throw away,
returns them to me when they are unexpected,
and suddenly precious,”
it is for you.

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