johnny case Poems

The huge corsage of mums
Was a cruel joke
The senior boys pinned on
Glori who nevertheless
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if one
of us
survives
the other
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The name on the headstone
Tells of something more.

In a space meant for two,
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while he was here
he did not speak.
did not we think
he could not speak?
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Lambs in limbo kneel before a graze.
I place your curtsy at stone eyestops.
menace
Sliding with amorphous sheen
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Once again solace will host the county fair.
I arrive to find my mother and father are there.
It is evening. The lights anticipate
The darkness yet to come.
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the crowd
takes
aim and fires
while i turn
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I have been called a cat, but I am not really that!
neither feline nor canine
I also do not belong where you
would lump me with the species humine
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Windswept memos go beneath feet underwhere
Culls my soil's grave to tuck dreamt longings
Further sown than widely known to shoot up blades.
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The distant sea reaches us here
A tide of will to mane every call
Feeding search-mates to the tree branches
So no voice knows the air it moves thru hair
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