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How to Dream

The #6 bus makes its paces through the town:
up Baxter Street, past Millege, up Sanford, past
the Library, past the transit center, and then looping around
to Hancock Street. Everything is slick from the
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NaPoWriMo Poem #12: Wine

Your pomegranate eyes close,
sink under the surface as your lids
close shut to seal them from the outside. The black
on the backs of your eyelids are a screen,
ready for projection. Cut the film,
splice it together from all of those fleeting shots
you’ve captured at school. Multiple frames
of him. The smile, the laugh, the eyes.
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Untitled 8-20-09

I wrote this for Read Write Poem Prompt #88: Fresh From the Wordle bank (which was an interesting birthday gift of sorts from RWP and the Universe, I think). I got a bit of inspiration this morning and worked some of the words into this piece. I think Kinnell has left his stamp on me and this poem is about — guess what — nightmares again. So for your enjoyment, fresh off the pen, is this yet-to-be-titled piece. Enjoy.

-Nicole

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The breeze blows through the
window, billows the curtains, flies those
gentle blue flags on worn steel rods, and then blows
down the coastline of your back. Somewhere,
a river comes undone
and hurls itself to Earth in tiny, shattered pieces
beyond our bedroom window. Dreams
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Dead

This poem was written as a (kinda) response to Rob Kistner’s poem, “Up From Hell” over on his blog Image and Verse and is for Read Write Poem Prompt #55 – Free For All. It is a sort of stream-of-consciousness piece, so bear with me if it meanders a bit. Enjoy.

-Nicole

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she walks in the house of the dead
house of the rising dead
dead house rising
dead house falling
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