James McLain Poems

One tooth just one metal tooth
nipping at your neck being
pulled down and checked
for sharpness with a clarity
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In my back yard
for information.
About no one
but themselves.
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It is only
my heart
beating
in one of
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I was six and one half peep
hole keys sometimes did
that evening my eye balled
credibility for one so young
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Fair to middling
parting of cloud
ridden by it is to
be followed by a
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Freeing the words they flow
seeing them you part your
tender lips tasting them you
roll them off your tongue to
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To help you help me....
You ask the wrong things........
Thinking to much as it does.....
Never sleeping.......
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Some how I have three
she called it a gift I say
it is an inconvenience.
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