Tag: surreality
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April 12, 2009 10:44 PM EDT --
Ol’ pal
A curvy creek with hovering trees.
Heavy and greasy water and small rapids.
The stream belongs to four boys fishing.
The breeze is deciphering silence.
A sandy . . .
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October 03, 2009 07:52 AM EDT --
Hearing a festival
The promotional colored handbills
are in a fancy flight of freedom.
Roads cheer; wind blows; children dance, couples.
These are the special . . .
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October 04, 2009 09:45 PM EDT --
calendar for my friend
Numbered are the days.
Bring the new calendar.
A bash is going to be
organized at home.
Is it your home or mine?
Does . . .
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October 11, 2009 09:43 PM EDT --
the last will and testament
A renewal clause, pen's cap opened,
spectacles rest on a document
of life, of seasons, of autumn, of snows.
Autumn twits on; the hidden . . .
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October 12, 2009 09:35 PM EDT --
Noiseless Sunday
A glow bug flew onto the tip of my finger;
flaming stories of the briny days burned and burned.
The woman we share in our life turned a page of
‘A death in the family’; . . .
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May 05, 2009 12:32 AM EDT --
As I stare into your eyes I am not blind to what I'm not seeing I hear sights, feel them sometimes As the changing light dances . . .
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August 20, 2009 07:54 AM EDT --
I watched me sleep
(To Dawn)
The last time I watched me while asleep
my mouth was kept ajar, a drop
of sea was following my left cheek.
The last time I watched me while . . .
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September 29, 2009 07:07 AM EDT --
Of silence and revelry
The emerald convoy of hedges, leaves;
those tired homecomings are blessed. Pebbles
carry one step at a time; drained steps.
The door creaks. . . .
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November 06, 2009 08:39 PM EST --
birds and cats of this world
(To Chris)
Chris has sent me a thousand birds’ calls.
They are muffled by my neighbor’s cat
hungry, forlorn after giving birth. . . .
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August 28, 2009 08:01 AM EDT --
Roger sent me a Dali
A Dali’s print lands me in breathlessness;
slant light yawning on her lap where it does
a Cheshire; talks on your secret laptop
flares up; I see myself craving . . .
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September 27, 2009 09:20 AM EDT --
Short story on escape
She insists that I should attend the door. The calling-bell buzzes for the sixth time after we come back from the sleep.
With a sigh I rise. Come downstairs. . . .
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September 28, 2009 07:25 AM EDT --
a walk midst a festival
The festive men and a long, long trail
preordained for a forgetful walk
make you believe that you know the link
missing hitherto. Yes, right. You say
in . . .
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October 07, 2009 10:23 PM EDT --
T he sonnet defends itself against vicissitudes of fortune by its charmed structure, its beautiful bubble : Rita Dove
on the art of receiving
Depends on the side . . .
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October 08, 2009 09:39 PM EDT --
the second monsoon
Résumé of rain; a daughter waits
for her gifts at the end; you call her
to come out, to have lunch; remind her
that it is too early for the . . .
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October 09, 2009 09:29 PM EDT --
Apples we’ve devoured
A little fire, a smoke coiling out of
the autumn, a short walk to the market
and a packet of apples for kitchen;
wonder whether the apples . . .
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October 27, 2009 09:40 PM EDT --
On a belief we don’t believe
Is this how you dream; with a horse waiting;
its nose flaring? All around, white softness
of Escallonia are really
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October 31, 2009 09:36 PM EDT --
Hollow wind on two frozen wings
A hollow wind and two frozen wings for a dodo.
Its over! Works are done! You scream. Vacation begins
as it has ended on . . .
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February 24, 2009 09:41 PM EST --
Ev idence
I live inside a dead watch,
still and fixed in a perpetual moment
when the small killing bullet
inserted through the glass, shattered it and stuck.
The lifeless . . .
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March 06, 2009 10:08 PM EST --
more from the attic
The drawing sheets are scattered, lying on the floor
talking their heads off in water colored words.
The crayons, the tubes are having a bad mood day,
his . . .
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April 13, 2009 10:30 PM EDT --
Identify this darkroom
The pictures can tell history.
Fingers touching it, brushing it
tremble by an unexplained agony;
as if sun is going to set
amid a dense forest . . .
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