Wilyem Clark : Writing

Escape

Escape

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


I want to dive downwards into the sky Reflected in the emptiness I hold in my hand: Moody, brooding, laced with branches That fracture the ribbony..
Rabbits

Rabbits

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


They race like rabbits, Too fast for an old hound To keep apace. Who'd want them, anyway? Vapid in speech, idle in thought, Plugged into devices,..
Runner

Runner

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


I like how you run on the bending bikeway: Erect, sure-footed, lean, and lost In concentration, your pace never slacking, Your heart pitter-patting..
Untitled

Untitled

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


I seem to connect with Children, crazy people, dogs. What shared frequency is this, What affinity, That attracts the less articulate flocks, That..
Brothers

Brothers

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


I've had two brothers, neither related To me or each other in any fashion. One shy, retreating from sparse assemblies, The second, exuberant beyond..
Schlaraffenland

Schlaraffenland

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


Every morning I gaze at it, The colorful map I've bleached and tinted With denim shades of indigo. And as I work--as I open a window, Occlude a na..
Jimmy

Jimmy

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


A humble man, a noble man Whose election fell in the four-year caesura Dividing the flagrant corruption and The ponderous Hollywood vanity of Two ..
Circularity

Circularity

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


Which brings me back to The unresolved question For anyone with a delving mind: What is my place in this pitiless world? If not on the rostrum Ha..
Collapse of the Anti-ego

Collapse of the Anti-ego

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


I don't like attention, no how no way: I shy from it, point to others and say, "Talk to them, leave me the hell alone." But I pay for the pleasure ..
An Old Chestnut, Cracked

An Old Chestnut, Cracked

A Poem by Wilyem Clark


Lincoln has been proven wrong: You can fool all the people All of the time, Or at least for staggered quadrenniums, Fooled so deeply, so profoundl..

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