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JAE JAE Poems
| 1. | Peeling | 4/18/2008 |
| 2. | Seen It All Before. | 4/27/2008 |
| 3. | Waking Life | 5/19/2008 |
| 4. | Home For Lunch | 5/19/2008 |
| 5. | Bill | 5/19/2008 |
| 6. | Touch | 5/19/2008 |
| 7. | Downhill | 5/19/2008 |
| 8. | Crypt Of The Carpucchin Monks. | 7/10/2008 |
| 9. | Envy | 9/8/2008 |
| 10. | Alive | 3/25/2009 |
| 11. | Who The Villain Is | 1/14/2008 |
| 12. | Backyard | 1/17/2008 |
| 13. | The Maintenance Of Bodies | 2/10/2008 |
| 14. | The Sun In Galveston | 12/30/2007 |
| 15. | Inventory | 7/26/2010 |
| 16. | Momma | 4/25/2007 |
| 17. | Ashes | 9/16/2011 |
| 18. | Just The Right Shapes | 9/16/2011 |
| 19. | Selfless | 9/16/2011 |
| 20. | The Walk Back | 9/16/2011 |
| 21. | What God Can Make | 9/16/2011 |
| 22. | White Noise | 9/17/2011 |
| 23. | In Limbo | 11/13/2011 |
| 24. | Keep It In | 11/14/2011 |
| 25. | Dissociation | 9/17/2011 |
| 26. | Larger Than Life. | 4/23/2010 |
| 27. | The Fall Of Man | 12/30/2007 |
| 28. | First Date. | 1/6/2008 |
| 29. | Life In Monochrome | 3/18/2008 |
| 30. | A Limited Body | 4/3/2008 |
| 31. | Ballerina Feet | 4/25/2007 |
Life In Monochrome
I paint my way in black in white,
ominously blind
as you sleep on into a viscous, lulling night—your hair
crammed neatly between my fingers,
the bristles on a brush, I’m making
a new masterpiece:
a failure—
I wonder.
a feat,
I wish ridiculously and
scream till I’m raw,
rubbed open so the optimism is
visible and rough
and sneaking
on into the day, on my
way home
through light and cloud and bright, bright, glaring white
shards of transient hope and the sporadic glassy glimpse of
that deepness of color, that midnight hue,
dark ...
Backyard
We had this
animal graveyard
set just far back enough
in our Clearing
so we didn’t have to be afraid
of all those furry ghosts, wandering ‘round in the cool, sharp Louisiana night and
seeking us out—their tiny patches of unkempt, crooked hairs
suffused with moonlight
cast up from the Palm Lake.
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