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A Poem by Vol
Sometimes
I can
move
with the music,
sometimes
not.
These
scars on my knees
and
the palms of my hands
bear
witness to a path littered ..
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A Poem by Vol
Where was I
before I was here?
This identity,
This personality?
This consciousness?
How did I coalesce?
Am I just a bunch of ne..
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A Poem by Vol
I like
to walk in the woods
without
paths or trails. You see,
I
follow Papa. That old man would
cut
a walking stick when he’d tak..
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A Poem by Vol
Someone’s
watching
all
the time, you know?
I’m
not talking about the cameras,
omnipresent,
becoming omniscient;
looking
d..
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A Poem by Vol
When
she needs to talk
I
can feel it in my
stomach
where anxiety lives,
and
anger, and
butterflies.
It
is genetic, I think, he..
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A Poem by Vol
Momma's
yellow table
had
chrome legs
and
chairs to match.
The
whole family
ate
buttermilk biscuits,
fresh
eggs and a hundred
..
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A Poem by Vol
The Idyllic dreams of what
once was...
when we agreed that right was
better
than wrong, and knew the
difference,
when we always aimed hi..
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A Poem by Vol
On
the other side of this wall,
cold
waitswith teeth bared
and
a sneerwhile I can do
nothing
to hold it at bay.
Erato
sleepswith back turned
..
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A Poem by Vol
There aren’t a thousand
people within
a hundred square miles of my
place
on the Llano Estacado. I’m
fairly
good
at li..
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A Poem by Vol
Her name
is Tracy K Smith
and
when she reads her poetry of
didactic
imagery, she is soft and
sensual
as D.H. Lawrence when
he
leans that..
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