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  • The Cannon
    Do you remember when we used to go to Kalimna Park? Do you remember when time always went too slowly and there was never anything to do?
    by WendyK 18 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 28 11:25 PM 2007
  • Stroke
    Today I’m alone. At last,
    I feel like me and not the world.
    by WendyK 58 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 28 11:19 PM 2007
  • Somewhere – We Remember
    For Sirius / Somewhere – We Remember / Somewhere in the smallest bedroom / A boy has much to fear. / He fights with all his courage / To ke
    by WendyK 48 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 30 7:06 PM 2007
  • Bildungsroman
    Reading Robert Dessaix / I muse on how well / men tell stories / hands to the wheel / eyes on the main / narrative drag / or metaphysical drift / they can see a life / (their own life, even)
    by WendyK 77 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 30 6:57 PM 2007
  • 5pm
    Hardly noticing that my eyes / have begun to strain / I now perceive that evenings / come more easily than dawns. / The light withdraws like a / shy party guest shuffling unnoticed / through the door that /
    by WendyK 16 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 25 9:26 AM 2007
  • The folk who live on giants
    The folk who live on giants / are like boys and girls in size / and when set upon a giant / they appear like tiny flies, / though they feel
    by WendyK 48 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 25 9:18 AM 2007
  • In the Lord’s Name
    'Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric' / - Theodor Adorno / Sex / and horror / are the new gods. / Let us make our sacrifice / our ne
    by WendyK 57 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 2 7:40 PM 2007
  • The new Mysticism - a found poem
    Extraordinary anti-aging and revitalizing benefits. / Exquisite pampering and gentle cushioning. / Exceptional moisture and deep conditioning. / Ensure a less-lined future as powerful age-resisting extracts--inclu
    by WendyK 16 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 2 7:30 PM 2007
  • The Middle of the Night
    Remember when all of it was her milk? / The whole thing turned on her breasts' milk and this / Almost a girl in the middle of the night lifting the baby / To hear him burp, / And you have touched a girl's breast
    by WendyK 16 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 28 10:28 AM 2007
  • Some Questions
    Why are your eyes so shifty today? / Why am I leaning at this angle? / What is there to steal in this place? / How many mouths to feed in this house? / Is it that you are both dark and light? / I am prepared to
    by WendyK 19 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 28 2:04 AM 2007. In Contest
  • Her Name
    “You will have noticed I haven’t mentioned her name.” / He gave me another of his searching looks. / I think he must have rehearsed his spe
    by WendyK 30 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 28 1:53 AM 2007
  • Blood blister
    Like a blister on my heel / you rub me the wrong way. / Born of the same blood - / a blood blister, / angry and proud. / I leave you there / because it hurts more / to squeeze you off. / Two peas from the
    by WendyK 18 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 27 3:26 PM 2007
  • The Woman as a Girl
    i. / When the woman was a girl / the world was measured in big toes and / hands and she drew crosses for plaits / and watched her shadow dance / And when she was a girl / she watched ants migrate vast plains
    by WendyK 49 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 26 12:59 AM 2007
  • Sonnet
    by WendyK 17 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 26 12:54 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Adult
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