All These Rooms

ALMOST MORNING
Am wet. My old girlfriend’s apartment.
Looks the same. The street glints,
stained in rain. Tears. Look for stars.
None on the horizon.
Inside. She thrashes at her comforter.
Gets up, heads for the bathroom. Goes back to bed.
Dig the hide-a-key from the mail box. Go in.
Lift the blanket with with a finger. Lay down
slow. She groans
and rolls over. […]

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NO LESS THAN ME
You should know. Close to sleep the dawn comes.
Through the window, the gray. The light
crawls on all fours. Stops at the carpet.
Squeels and babbles and goes silent. The light
no less alive than me. The sunrise moves
up the wall. Through me.
Makes me light enough
to hear their whispers
like gum on the sidewalk in the […]

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woke up 6 am
said no to work
no to contact lenses
no to coffee
with or without sugar
I just don’t want it
said no to my mother my father
and my uncle
no to the children I have not had yet
and my friend’s children
and “how cute they are when they’re
sick and cranky and need to be held”
said no to giving blow […]

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Hi all,
 So in the interest of keeping things busy I’m thinking of trying to get a few more writers on the site. My idea is to put up an invitation for poets familiar with workshopping on a variety of sites to come check out our site and sign up as subscribers. After they comment on […]

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