frank,
i enjoyed reading your poem.
-annie
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relating to poetry and poetics wrote:
Heart Shaped Blossoms
Rabbit lays out in the backseat of the Galaxy
snared in the rush of auto lights flashing wave
after wave across the interior ceiling. All of his
muscles, even his teeth, begin to relax. He sud-
denly knows. He's lifted out of his hide into
The Light!
"We are already where we've been going!"
·
hungry ghosts grip the wheel
unable to feast at the table
·
O, mother held homes together
she lost her other
O, father I fear, the absent years
in mansions of manic depression
O, sister sweet, desire I hid
your own room
O, brother, my brothers, living and dead
all the love we wish we said
·
words go out
I hear my heart
a red crown
in a dark sea
pages
of morning white
fingers cup
the wind all night
·
the whole dream
the instant I wake
an ancient and
confounding skull
with enormous teeth
·
years
of myself
there
another day
outside
my grasp
·
where diamonds slope
the sea
my goddess
sings to me
·
our bodies the sun
mornings dressed for church
leave me drum my songs
the heart shaped blossoms
when I'm not there to see
plum leaf butterfly wings the breeze
- Frank Parker
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I was put on this earth to accomplish a certian number of things. Right now
I'm so far behind I'll never die.
Calvin & Hobbes
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