Dick Holmes

A high-pitched little birdie
in the cedar near the window
wails my rainy day blues.
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When this otherwise
normal guy
gets too excited, he
suddenly bulks up into
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I met her in a place halfway between
Heaven and Hell, a singular bar
by the name of Twelve Bar Blues.
Singular because, for one thing, its name
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Three titles in search of
a poem —
'Unentitled, '
'Field of Weeds, ' and
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'There are words for things, '
says a Sunday breeze gusting in the trees,
'but things themselves are wordless.
And actually there is only one thing —
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... now...
the hour
of our
death-
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Long, long ago, the world
managed to climb atop a giant
ancient camel and headed out,
slow-motion step by step, across
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Arm in arm, Past and Future
work the same street. They were
really something in their youth,
irresistible, enchanting princesses,
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It's part of a story told in first person,
the narrator defining how it was for him
in the context of what happened,
embedded in countless others' contexts.
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I'm flying low over a wheat field
when I spot what looks like
a flock of crows in the near distance.
I recognize them
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Emptiness:
the perfect
filling —
for pie
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When I took on the job of being
the ghost writer of my own biography, I
didn't realize how complicated things would get.
By definition, a ghost writer is the
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Whatever cranks your tractor,
as they say in the heartland,
the Great Farmer plants
specially for you. Of course, He
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You took the one
less traveled on. You
thought you did.
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One of the beauties of poetry
is that not much equipment is
needed to practice it —
just a heart with ears.
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Here we come
arm in arm
out of the darkness
of the theater
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We are all gifted
mimes, handling the objects
of our daily lives
as if they were really there.
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Time — what is it,
this vast father of all concepts
luring its children into
preoccupation with the past?
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'When the truth works its way
through the net of illusion
and plunges back into the sea, '
says the fish to the fisher,
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