Lonnie Hicks Poems

My dad one day
explained women to me.

Home from college
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There is this angry place
she said
that's been inside me since
my earliest days.
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So Time I thread through
the needle eye
and stretch it like taffy
across my life,
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I have sat the wily beast
rode in the darkest night
eaten from the trough
of death;
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'I just want to know how love feels
and no one can tell me'
she said
'I've tried to love someone
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Butter Fly wings
float near my face
and this softest breeze
reminds me of the way
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To all my daughters who
run with their hair loose
on sunny days,
who still play dress up
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Every one loves-
I am convinced of that,
it is just that
some do it so badly.
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Careful
there are Nouns here
which innocently
can
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If dark matter and energy comprise
most of the universe
then most of what we see is
bounded by limitlessness-
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