Patti Masterman Poems

You can sleep underwater, but the blankets float away
You can sleep through your whole life, while the shooter steals the day;
Make believe you can't see all the bullets flying past,
Put the blinders on again to make the moment last.
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Proof of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki inheritance:
Darkened shadow people burned onto sidewalks-
So unbelievable that living beings could turn
Into mere shades of what they once were.
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I want to be locked in the art gallery some night,
All alone with the taciturn guy and girl flat landers.
Mix up some pina coladas, some margaritas,
Then toast the whole town in there;
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Hacking off heads
Killing the snake
Two sided hydra
Look what's at stake
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Playing with dreams
in the spinning darkness
where abounds seamlessness
and the mind trying to read the shadows
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The albatross that's America-
Where does it think it's heading?
The statue of Liberty's hiked her hem;
That's all she's left, for giving..
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There is a house inside the heart
Where lovers wait; no guile, no art,
No time passing, inside their room,
While at the window, looks in the moon;
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Moon shining over the water
And leaves apart in spectral silence,
How night is sometimes still surprised
That heaven’s lanes only reached by love.
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Time cloisters under the rafters,
Time splatters boisterous stars,
Time signifies all and nothing-
Time which fattens itself on wars.
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Yesterday is but a dream
Tomorrow's something yet unseen
This now we have, and that's enough
Enough to yearn, enough to love
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