Theresa Haffner Poems

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31.
The Next Generation

(STARDATE 45122.3. The sensors aboard the Starship Enterprise have detected a subspace anomaly. The nature of the anomaly is as yet unknown, but Commander Data has reported a slight drain on the warp core generator. Captain Jean Luc Picard has alerted the senior crew members to keep him informed of any changes and meanwhile continue on course to the colony on Aldebaran III)


“It must mean we’re really getting old when the only thing we talk about is television, ” I say to Bobby. He sits across from me, the flickering colors from the TV screen playing across his face, the dim light illuminating the room like a lunar landscape.
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32.
Fire

11: 00 a.m. no money. only three pennies which is enough to cast the ‘i ching’ oracle but not enough to pay the parking meter.

a week now since the fire. the smell of smoke gradually clearing out from the halls of this cheap hotel where we live.
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33.
Fresno

I could almost
live here.
It’s like a real city.
People think it’s
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34.
Wounds

I am turning the dial on the radio—switching stations looking for some music to listen to. It is late at night and the lamplight in my hotel room casts steep shadows.

I listen to each station for a few seconds before deciding to change it. I have been reading Rimbaud and the mood hangs heavy in the room, the images still lingering in my mind.
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35.
Inscription

Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray
From the straight road and woke to find myself
Alone in a dark wood. How shall I say
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36.
Mars Reflections

cold criminal element
the undeciphered code of the last armed outpost
to see any of the events down along the causeway
where the dried riverbeds meet
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37.
The Black Stars

I.
along the highway
we passed the black holes
of burned out stars
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38.
Ledger

1. Debits and Credits.

Bringing It All Back Home. The pen stabs the tar-like sheet.
Ink flows like Blood on the Tracks.
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39.
Two Blocks East, Three Blocks West

(for Eddie Villanueva)


Two blocks east, three blocks west,
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40.
Teachers

They were teachers

Those colossal masters of the saxophone
Taking us from the center of the universe
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