Tag: jimson weed
member name: Neva B.
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April 28, 2008 12:32 PM EDT --
STINGS
Yellow jacket nest
Smack dab in the middle of a meadow
On Granddad's farm.
Barbs . . . darts . . . arrows . . .
Pierced the flesh in the girl's shorts,
The . . .
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April 29, 2008 11:37 AM EDT --
STRAWBERRY SEASON
I visit farms
Where you strut through fields
You'll never own.
Your wife and kids look like you:
Jeans, plaid shirts, long black hair.
Quick-fingered, . . .
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May 05, 2008 08:07 PM EDT --
Blacksnake
Coiled in my path like an ampersand.
My heart beats an ellipsis . . .
Punctuates the sentence of my original sin.
Serpent conjunction links me to my base nature. . . .
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May 14, 2008 10:38 AM EDT --
HOUSECLEANING
I set my mop bucket
beneath the downspout
so grit that sits at
bucket's bottom
returns to earth
around my house.
Carried in on work boots and bare feet:
pine . . .
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April 19, 2008 04:59 PM EDT --
Pushing Forty
I'm no autumn leaf,
Just one in a withered sheaf
Piled on a forest floor.
I'm not a walnut,
Black-hearted and heavy,
A pungent plunge to rot in . . .
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July 10, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
“Blacksnake.” Jimson Weed , vol. XXIV, new series vol. 8, no. 2 (Fall 2005).
Blacksnake
Coiled in my path like an ampersand.
My heart beats an ellipsis . . . Punctuates the . . .
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April 14, 2008 12:53 PM EDT --
In the summer of 1954, Bull Mountain's winding road was a well-traveled track of dirt and dark dust. Coal trucks smudged everything in their wake. Every time I took in clothes, I had to exorcise . . .
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