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by NicoleMichaels
Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:26 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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MEET ASIAN GIRLS NOW I had a love for you big as China, and I have stopped fighting for you.   I am not from Singapore or Siam,   some small village in Vietnam where they sell their daughters all day long to buy rice.  The last time I made rice, I burned it, and you are not going to find me  posing ...
by NicoleMichaels
Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:20 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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Views: 679686

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SHEEP AND LIONS  Scale is everything. A praying mantis is an apex predator to a hummingbird.  A loaded wheelbarrow, so useful to an adult, quickly becomes a broken bone to a child who tries to help.  And who hasn't fished a bridge from a great distance, cabled its spans. Today you have a plastic jaw...
by NicoleMichaels
Sun Apr 14, 2019 9:28 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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NICASIO  You, first kiss, who lacked a car to take in a movie that summer after freshman year -  Who picked me up on foot  to escort me home in the cul de sac dark as if all brightness ended there, and might curl up  on a stair  to sleep off its drunk until we were of age to drive -  You are in Madr...
by NicoleMichaels
Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:46 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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ROUNDED SHOULDERS

At first light,
a squirrel sheds its silhouette
the way a starlet would a drape,
descending stair by stair
from a landing
that is suddenly
fire escape,
now ladder.
by NicoleMichaels
Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:38 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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SOAP CHOPRA  With a magnifying glass, you can focus the sun, burn a leaf with it.   If you’re Queen of England and the Irish give you doves - you can set them free.   When you’re a coconut you can cling, at a dangerous angle, to a tree. Who will climb its pole?  But a bar of soap, after a long campi...
by NicoleMichaels
Sun Apr 07, 2019 8:15 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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CRANBERRY GLASS Spring blooms perfume a curb, decanted in gutter water. Something pink and wilting cures without a stopper. No one going to the estate sale seems to notice the earthworm’s damp dilemma, caught as it is between a leaf and a half-sucked mint, spit out by an eager buyer. There’s a mailb...
by NicoleMichaels
Sat Apr 06, 2019 7:31 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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MILES CITY I was glad you were just the kind to skip the beer garden as too crowded, so much jostling, hats sprouting like mushrooms in manure, foam mustaches rimming plastic cups. We hurried to beat a thunderstorm after the sale, whole strings of horses pushing and shoving at their trailers. The wi...
by NicoleMichaels
Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:18 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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INDIAN TACOS  Better than any woman ever plaited her hair, these vines braid air and a smoke stack that has not seen smoke in many years.  There’s a roof that sags like a hammock, daring the right person to nap in its shingled sling, or read a book while balanced on bleaching rafters. This house is ...
by NicoleMichaels
Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:43 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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REUNION The sun is busy warming you like a stone from 1981.  You’ll never get skin cancer,   crows feet, a sun burn.  All this light just loves you the way I still love you,  the way everybody loves you,  as if you had a magic letterman’s jacket,  a Camaro than ran on fuzzy dice,  disco balls dangli...
by NicoleMichaels
Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:10 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!
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CAROLINA GROCERY Church lady comes zappy down the aisle toting a banana for the bagel she’s going to buy  at the bagel place down the street. When she grins, it’s a glossy occasion,  as if the day rolled out just to display her immaculate teeth,  lips lined and filled, eyes shining under penciled br...