Tag: Animal poems
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Chocolate Ants
I once ate chocolate-covered ants my father picked up at a specialty store in Kittery. They didn’t look like ants but like tiny chocolate remnants like you’d find in the bottom of a box of Goobers, and they didn’t taste like gross ants, but simply like chocolate, but you know, I gained some satisfaction from […]
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Train
One place I used to retreat to when I was a kid was under our mobile home on a bed of sand where I listened to spiders making noises and imagined I’d found an ancient tomb in some exotic place and to this day this is how I think about my own thinking whenever I […]
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Tsunami
Too much of my life I’ve spent complaining to the police in my head about how my past should have been this or that, it’s a wonder my mind hasn’t fallen off its hinge and started quacking. I realized this tonight while I was complaining to my therapist about how I thought poetry should be […]
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Chickadees
I can’t seem to stop falling asleep on a raft of pure emotion and pulling myself out by the hairs of my unconscious, just before my conscious mind, a quarter mile off shore, loses grip of me completely. If you happen to see me, you can find me in my favorite chair calling forth the […]
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Coral Reefs
I told a coworker off the other day by reminding them that inverting interpretation is something I’ve always found a kind of joy in. I went on to say that I think this is because what’s often real and true needs to be broken and taped and without a frame first in order to get […]
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Sperm Whale
I’ve glided above and beyond the waves of my life like a sea captain who refuses to return to land. Even when I could see myself like a sunset on the horizon, I could never quite reach myself in time to make me happen. The search for self was as slippery to me as the […]