Jack Galmitz Poems

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1.
Horse In The Pasture

The horse in the pasture
is muscled that way
its distinction
from the yellowing hay
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2.
For Andy

he stepped off
the moon right
into my living room
like a lightning bug
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3.
I Think The Dead Are Singing

I think the dead are singing
or so I gather from their mouths.
I do not like the boat I'm in-
it has no oars
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4.
The One Eyed Man With A Slanted Hat

So what we have got
is a continual untangling
of not what was said
or meant but something
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5.
Sleeping Back To Back

Declining male nude
facing the dark night
of the window.
His arm wraps the pillow.
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6.
Mostly Untitled

it could be all the days
that passed or a child's writing
in a notebook over
and over what words no matter
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7.
Five Words In A Line (For Gertrude Stein)

It's time my sweet friend
to say goodbye. Go now
to the world without depth
where memory and wind time
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8.
One Cloud Hanging

Like a prop a foreboding cloud
took aim at the bar on the outskirts of town.
It hung above it as if there was something personal going
on. The town folk who had gathered
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9.
A Small Song

a small song
you come around
you hang on
I love how you get down
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10.
Miami Swim Week

the body
beyond the obvious
smells of gas
decomposing flesh
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