Jason Shinder
Jason Shinder Poems
- How I Am When I talk to my friends I pretend I am standing on...
- The Visit My only mother, who lost sixty pounds, tried to ...
- The One Secret That Has Carrie... Irene loves a man who is ...
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How I Am
When I talk to my friends I pretend I am standing on the wings
of a flying plane. I cannot be trusted to tell them how I am.
Or if I am falling to earth weighing less
than a dozen roses. Sometimes I dream they have broken up
with their lovers and are carrying food to my house.
When I open the mailbox I hear their voices
like the long upward-winding curve of a train whistle
passing through the tall grasses and ferns
after the train has passed. I never get ahead of their shadows.
I embrace them in front of moving cars. I keep them away
from my ...
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