Calvert, Texas

August 6, 2010

Calvert, Texas You can get a good cup Of coffee At the brush break cafe When looking out the window Across main street You can see where that first passenger got off Glass eyed burning With yellow fever In eighteen seventy two. Bringing a wrath A biblical colossus Of vengeful caprice Deserved or not They […]

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She and I

August 5, 2010

She and I She spills the beans She washes machines She teleports to mountain resorts She keeps her council and preens I watch her behind I see it all blind I bite the curious making them furious I am caught in her bind. She tells me what to do She over-flows the stew She leaves […]

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Bobby’s Question

August 4, 2010

“At what point does the light leave the eyes…?” Is it flowing from follicles out of Eustachian tubes Down the steep back roads at the nape of the neck? Does light leave screaming and laughing? Is it projected in to the air To the amazed Who, dazed, didn’t get the joke Didn’t tell a joke, […]

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Like the Hindu

August 3, 2010

Like the Hindu We are Born over and over Like a crumpled wet calf Dropped on the ground Landing in a glistening lump Stirring in blurred amazement Born to bear what can be born Of childhood’s endless scraped knees Torn elbows, rolled in dirt Like floured chicken wings Mind and body Splattered With puddled mud […]

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Looking for Jewels in the Mud

August 2, 2010

In fixed stares at the torn dark dirt In snares caught and combed We fought the frozen ponds Hiding the slow moving cold blooded fathers. We wanted to know what the green Waving arms under the ice glaze had to say We wanted to know why maples tattooed By pocket knives feared the brown lake’s […]

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Tales from X-Husband Land XX

August 1, 2010
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LISTEN or DOWNLOAD this poem. Tales from X-Husbandland XX read by Josh Kight. Tales from Ex-Husband land XX The Old Submariner (Cries from the Throat) It is ended now The pocked packets Of rage in every other house On my street. The Cries from the throat Of the drunk submariner Could be heard for blocks […]

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