Headlights Poems

They say you can jinx a poem
if you talk about it before it is done.
If you let it out too early, they warn,
your poem will fly away,
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I

I dream of journeys repeatedly:
Of flying like a bat deep into a narrowing tunnel
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Dear ghosts, dear presences, O my dear parents,
Why were you so sad on porches, whispering?
What great melancholies were loosed among our swings!
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My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases,
At whose quick touch all glasses chip and ring,
Whose palms are bulls in china, burs in linen,
And have no cunning with any soft thing
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Still,
I would leap too
Into the light,
If I had the chance.
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In the naked bed, in Plato's cave,
Reflected headlights slowly slid the wall,
Carpenters hammered under the shaded window,
Wind troubled the window curtains all night long,
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Creatures of the Night
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iron grates over the street drains
roofs for the poor
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The telephone poles
Have been holding their
Arms out
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I sit beside two women, kitty-corner
to the stage, as Elvin's sticks blur
the club into a blue fantasia.
I thought my body had forgotten the Deep
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.
Did a dry run to see
if I could drive at night.
Joe didn't think it was such a good idea
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Shot a suspicious look
About flash photography
A second presentation
What does that mean
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headlights
enveloped in winter fog
a one-armed man
wobbles back and forth
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Monday morning, November 26,2018 at 6: 22 a.m., then at9: 48 a.m.;
Thursday morning, November 29 at 10: 21 a.m., then at 8: 20 p.m.;
Wednesday morning, December 5 at 10: 57 a.m.
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I'm out of my shell, exposed far-too-ajar;
Have we dined out on oysters and caviar?
Your beauty is the full-beam of the moon.
Oh, how I have ventured out too soon.
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"America's Bullshitter"
....Putin's acquitter
Deer...in the headlights...bigots aglitter
....Thus nothing more fitter
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So you will be a specialist
From the chair came support
You know it must be hard
That's a reasonable request
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I seen her vacant eyes.
Before, we called it blues.
Now, it appears outfitted in sublime cues.
Wearing cloudy plum swirls.
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