Word-Dreamer: poetics

"couldn't you  see with my eye and simply not say it's surely not worth the trouble to love much --"the wind blows where   it listeth"-- & let a few cats go who've been piereced in th...

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To every  sage Adele and every alloted share of bust and marbre   I've ever seen your like receive, with the cutest plaster phrase to ever emanate from the mouth of Art   as I'd lain with ...

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Write 'storm' on the towers, and don't choose   clear pools over rain ah camioneros, never, never!    Mine's a ruined casa low in the highway,           a yard's wild over...

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a garden! where any American friend and curly tree, spaced between clouds and winds, would love to be The rabbit known by scent and stride, & one good twitchy eye is safe for now inside its ...

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 Kell verses       (for Katherine Gordon) She sits in her stone seat,   beside two tractor wheels, musing, the jug beneath her feet,   earth of clay at her heels— dear Ka...

http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2019/09/kell-verses.html

Every poem's  like that in Sexton's cute smirk      or the two lips pressed to the filter     or a hand draped over the only knee left to her          

http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-poppy-poem.html

As a long-gowned leggy dancing master knows,   "It's Titi and sweet-both," smirking, quick to say to dancing girls all in a row.    But Titi, grown to stray far has gone too far so that...

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With milk on the chin and feathery lip,   (uncoiling, to show you) she mews, & rises misty-nosed, too   because you'd like   to say bye But she turns the tension into a nap,   into a...

http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2018/11/my-goodbye-to-neighbours-cat.html

(1954-1980) The grass blown over your eyes,   I saw, soul-shrivelled in wind, wet in an early Spring,   an absent heart (were it just grass borders taking   you in!),  and e...

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When it's out of your hands,  and the cute curled face    of the cat-saint takes one in hers, look on a bit & wait. The two or three others, breathless   and tight-lipped (those cats of ...

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She's etched in snow-decal like the panther cousin; and   lost in a broken field, like the plumehunter Devislish with fur's soft-fire, foxed,   hourly, in even bouts a cat walks out of h...

http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2018/05/tabby.html

     That Wisdom to know when to rise is caught in shades, strong-armed by two fleshy feet    that get up slowly, greet the light. & hold derisively to the taffrails of a stormy Da...

http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2018/04/exempla-of-aged.html

Fay, please confirm              that it's just another spring   memory, veiled like the Crocus at the painter's   feet-   a clay bed for seeds to green in lavender...

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By the willow and aspen groves, their accustomed rendezvous, he'd told her, as often as not, to find a spot and hide from view: "I didn't promise--don't say I did, that the night would...

http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2018/03/becky.html

(for Sophie Scholl) I say, Yes to the petal lips given to Rose hearts   as freely and easily as all the world's real true outgrowing   In a velvet crown you're a sort of supermute conque...

http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2018/02/to-one-nominal-rose-in-world.html

who eats a whole rat gnawed down to the bristly bone  is the same that swims in cold pink; screwing the mouth to the side, he sends a sin streaming  out of its guts on a lovely 'lil bub...

http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2017/12/macky-fish-parable.html

when the spaces always kill the waves  rolling between them;              when the smelt kissed on the lips   create storms in their head;when the dripped-in-fat lids of a catfi...

http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-moon-is-full-when.html

Not a gambler, not  a bit at odds with deuces,   & good as dead to his first wife A good even-keeled guy  with an itch & lots of passwords    who arrives late to pay his own rent by wa...

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By  the slightest quavering dribbling note of the responsorial,   you can know her She's still the dear fantast she ever was or a withering face of  her   full Avila  heart! Dodde...

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The accused sat alone in a glass dock,and couldn't quell the Love in his head!   Female Crown, in long sleek gown, hair black at roots but thinning for the most part, said smugly to ...

http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2017/11/why-i-was-dismissed-from-jury-duty.html

And as being sadly tall among the misty swedes & turnips      she goes to the summit where weeds spill over an abbey wall, like spidery froth pulled to right or     left in the br...

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It's good to see, borne on the same wing,   both flight and an aery death— Beyond the impassioned spiny needlefloors,   by winds coarsed, it's still good to be a butterfly,  alone, on a ...

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(for Colleen) Even with lethal Tree and indomitable leaf   the woods breathe in frost and breathe out   warm sandy shores,   a water's cresting scent A forest is partly eye of the sle...

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With an elongate rather wet smile, she kisses like a slob!   But she's a lady who peeps through the clouds,in her strapless and shawl   and brooks no lies And to judge by skin tone a...

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He came at my request, at last. And in reply to my, "What is it?"   said grimly, taking a close look at me— "Look, it's as if someone's stippled a sunset here, & mixed in ravens;    s...

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