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Wigglesquirm

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Somewhere In A Coverless Book
« on: May 23, 2017, 01:18:11 AM »
1.

Beyond the canopy
it cannot climb -
rootless and rolling,
a bark laden log
   

2.

Hatchet beside,
fire behind,
stream before,
the water sees nothing

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Re: Somewhere In A Coverless Book
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2017, 03:59:32 AM »
3.

Who blows at the walls
with ink tipped wings,
wanted by wanderers,
wondered at by waifs?

4.

Begins his flight at another’s descent
He tells tales, not of merriment;
villains of poor temperament
and heroes heedless of death’s lament -
it’s just as the old saying goes:
the higher the arc the harsher the end.

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Re: Somewhere In A Coverless Book
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2017, 06:33:00 PM »
5.

The clouds unlid the early Sun
to let it look on us;
It saw the flesh strike the whip,
let it go on looking -
we saw then a vengeful flame,
a cracking sword sought out pain
and many eyes sought the clouds
and many arms tried to maintain
the sound sense of civil unrest,
but silence set -
those with guts do one thing best;
spill,
and when the light turned away
we followed its example

6.

Petulant hearts tangle each other
as bommy-knockers in the wind,
they spike faces when they pass
and together hit the dirt

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Re: Somewhere In A Coverless Book
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2017, 05:24:26 AM »
7.

Your brothers, with their glistening heads,
face the cart roads when they clatter home -
they fear the sky that pulls up the darkness.

You, instead, you reach up to tug
the shadow from the moon
with nimble archer’s fingers -

Those fingers were in my dream one night,
swimming together playfully in my hair,
then they pushed it gently from my eyes.

8.

As hard and clunky as beetles
marching through the gravel
but more like peeking children
behind doe eyed mothers