A.Z. McCoy Poems

Are you biding time
Or do you let the unsaid linger?
I hear the beautiful lies
Spread of the unspoken
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Where do you go
To catch briefest glimpse
of seaward light?
The ocean, you say.
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Unknown roads, deserts pass through
Neural skyways, alacrity of surprise
In the words you type a world away
Your surprise is mine
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I drove to our old
Favorite BBQ spot,
The pit with its sweet tang in waft,
Seeing us laugh and joke,
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If the madness lifted to auto-pilot,
I'd already be in my lover's arms,
Above, where nothing but her touch lingers
My scars, my blessings, my clouds
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The parade's over
The clowns and politicians
Have all gone home,
To slumber in blood and war-hinged treasure,
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You laugh without knowing
the golden expanse between,
How it stretches through rooms
To depths unmet and finds rest
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A girl wished on tiptoe
Glimpses of saccharine delight
Splayed across her horizon, sunsetting and silhouetted,
Dancing candy bars with gloved arms of straw-pipe
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Now whisper something wild
Split my insides with your chisel
Love, you have opened me wide
To horizon skies and burning embers
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The seasonal carousel round and round
Brings us new day
Under the aluminum sky's haze
We raise our hands,
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