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A Poem by JR
We rise like vapor slowly from the water
Mirror Lake, in the High Uinta mountains
in November with the silence of antecedent snow
we have des..
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A Poem by JR
I know where the grape hunters hide
I have seen the heavy men, ring bangers
weighed their women with my eyes
the heft of their thick thighs
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A Poem by JR
Two a.m., parked in a pasturesummer night with the skreeee of cricketsnew moon, the dark of the nightis a cloth laid over the fields, laid over uswe&r..
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A Poem by JR
Edited an older poem, but I wanted to keep both copies.
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A Poem by JR
I love the reassuring weight of you
all of your clicks and clacks
the smell of your oil, I keep my machine
clean as a whistle
because ever..
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A Poem by JR
L’homme est un loup pour l’homme -Unknown, graffiti in Paris
Why do they come at me with these claws?
hooked nails better served..
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A Poem by JR
All drained no stems no bones
awash now in the puddle of the morning
coffee on but mostly forgotten
nothing but static mind, chattering;
t..
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A Poem by JR
I feel at a loss for myself, her works are so compact
there isn’t a word wasted, each line
can be judged by the weight of the line before ..
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A Poem by JR
"the weight we carry / is love" - Song, Allen GinsbergI must fall down awhile
under the weight
of love
become a puddle
of self
a bubbling mas..
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A Poem by JR
I long to live inside the humI want to wing across the static atrophyI yearn to spread my armsso so wideand droplike a stone
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