Noah Smits Poems

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1.
Zero Balance

My life fits inside an aluminum can
Not much of a poet and less of a man
My brashness I nurture; my folly I flaunt
I swing and I sway in suspensions of want
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2.
Wirehair Collie

A wind that blows in no direction whips
and scatters drifts of leaves. Each way you face,
it meets you there, reminds you nature is
a struggle. Lukewarm folks need not apply;
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3.
East Indian Red

Burnt out on obligation, creatures shuffling in the brush
beside the barn elect to surface as the herders' cries subside,
their trotting cattle turning in as turning out through gates behind
the woodshed comes their little walkway, homeward winding,
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4.
Janniel

"Milwaukee's shortstop (jean segura) added to bereavement list—
deepest condolences offered up by myself and the entire mlb blogosphere—"
writes some guy who thinks he knows about grief because his hamster died and he listened to automatic for the people in his climate controlled madison apartment
while sun-baked old women gasp for breath and well-dressed gentlemen plead with their messiahs from ten thousand feet
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5.
Dawn Interrupted

Alleys dark with slinking shapes
that crawl along the fire escapes,
the grainy mesh of sullen soot
that floats in flurries underfoot,
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6.
Falling Away

With my eyes sewn shut,
after much delay,
in the hand of God
I was found today.
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7.
Below The Firmament

Into the humid air I plunged my body, soul in tow,
the night's caress immersing both in peace despite my woe.
I clutched my cardboard Christ anew—
in truth, to signal virtue did this phony pilgrim go,
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8.
A Zeitgeber

Flicker from a weak light
Globe spins on a greased hinge
Blizzard in the peak night
lifting to the high fringe
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9.
Scene: D. Bazan Comforted By A Figure In White Robes

Come forth now, my snake-bitten child
Embrace me—remember the years
When plain was my presence beside you
You felt me as if you were here
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10.
Semisolids

Plasma-green river roll,
turgid as the hush fell;
hear—does it gush well?
Laggard old river-soul
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