Tag: poetry
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I wrote this at the jazz open mic last night.
I see, I hear, I learn, I bend myself in pretzel knots and unfold my mind longhand I traded the fire and brandy autumn leaves for you and instead we squeeze every dropof juice we can from this town with gusto and verve. I might die tomorrow as my hand cramps andmy heart races in…
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This mind was a pantheon once, and sometimes I miss it still…
Inspired by my poem “samson”, which appears in my zine field notes from a colder time. -Allēna
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Here’s a poetry performance from the other day.
This is “bite”, performed at Linneman’s Riverwest Inn in Milwaukee. “bite” was originally published in our third collection of poetry, Singing Molten Gold to the Morning. -Allēna
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Can’t sleep? Want company?
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“depersonalization blues”
these are the lengths you drove me to I don’t write verses anymore, I write indictments I built a twisted empire out of everything you weretoo afraid to touch in all of the places I knew you’d never look, and there, in the shadows, I waitedyou did exactly what I wanted you to do. anger…
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“watchman”
I am the blank space you seek in your sorrownothing less and sadly nothing more you are the shooter and I am the spotterimmortal, ever watchfulkeeping lookout for dangers you and others cannot seeI am the depth of night, thetiny pauses between your syncopated heartbeatsworking double time. in the end, there will be no place…
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this one is called “sin eater”.
i think you seared ghosts into my bonesdown deep into the marrowand time may be round, but i am forced to remain heresuffering, as all of time’s rivers and streams flow back into meand the specters of all the things you whispered and lies you screamedare made to ride with me tooi am not religious,…
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After a long delay…
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