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When the flowers die

I gave up searching under a harvest moon,
prayers hang thick in the air.

by Instant Karma 25 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 12 7:54 PM. In Love, Life
Jolene

by Instant Karma 81 lines, on Feb 2 1:00 AM. In Adult, Love, Life
Pain

Among the balance of morning, I let go
Africa unknots herself from my hair

by Instant Karma 29 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 30 10:51 PM 2008
how it was born

This is the last love.
I felt it in my bones, the softness of the sky

by Instant Karma 36 lines, on Aug 16 10:03 PM 2008
Cowboy

Only love lay unborn beneath a dusty sky
Riding bareback through the waters of the river

by Instant Karma 30 lines, on Jun 19 7:34 PM 2008
The truth must be a paradise

The Yellowjackets suhddered in their shells
milked dry as a skin, reborn like shins, spines

by Instant Karma 44 lines, on Mar 28 11:58 AM 2008
water

Love, I am
a willow tree. under

by Instant Karma 37 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 10 9:14 PM 2008

Meyer

She is in her bed, white
like snowy cotton, these secrets

by Instant Karma 91 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 8 6:02 PM 2008
to love her

What is this
that hurts,

by Instant Karma 58 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 28 7:13 PM 2008
Playing Pocahontas

As children,
we were parasites.

by Instant Karma 38 lines, on Jan 28 7:08 PM 2008
Tuesday Morning

Your arm is draped
across my ribcage.

by Instant Karma 37 lines, on Jan 28 6:16 PM 2008
I will spend the last days of my childhood (loving you)

Heaven cracked, spilling water
into our cupped palms. we are begging.

by Instant Karma 15 lines, on Jan 2 4:56 PM 2008
Sinful

Maybe, it would have been best,
had we gone to church that night.

by Instant Karma 39 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 2 1:44 AM 2008
Bluefire

November is sweet I am almost thankful

by Instant Karma 36 lines, on Dec 16 9:13 PM 2007

Unravel

Dusks are royal purple;
oxygen that feeds the fire.

by Instant Karma 19 lines, on Oct 10 1:22 PM 2007
Crumble

whose heart pounds
so astoudingly, in my ear.

by Instant Karma 25 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 7 11:52 PM 2007
Sampson

The sky is swollen sapphire,
a midnight harmony, a paradise.

by Instant Karma 31 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 24 4:03 PM 2007
4 a.m.

Song birds rise
to wake us in the morning,

by Instant Karma 35 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 3 11:13 PM 2007
Imprint

Harmony is lost
in the swelling of meaningless skies.

by Instant Karma 31 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 11 9:55 PM 2007
falling

The night has carved you
into my skin.

by Instant Karma 40 lines, on Apr 9 7:04 PM 2007
The sunshine Outside

April air wraps herself around us.
The day is warm, &

by Instant Karma 53 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 2 8:47 PM 2007

Firewood

Desire swells,
ripe in her shell,

by Instant Karma 55 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 10 9:38 AM 2007
unfinished

Dear, your breath is liquid magnolias.
every white petal itches the skin;

by Instant Karma 36 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 15 5:24 PM 2007
Birthday

1
In October, I loved.

by Instant Karma 95 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 8 4:53 PM 2007. In Life
Woman

Standing in the doorway,
whose grey-black hair

by Instant Karma 16 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 25 5:15 PM 2007
Somehow Hollow

But for no reason at all.
One o'clock in the morning

by Instant Karma 41 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 13 8:52 AM 2007. In Life
Soil

There are, white blossoms in a vase of milk

by Instant Karma 31 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 7 2:59 PM 2006. In Personal
sunrise

She rises in the east, early
morning sun.

by Instant Karma 24 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 4 9:15 PM 2006. In Personal
Carrying darkness

A smiling woman cries
Bald head, pink gums

by Instant Karma 29 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 19 10:48 PM 2006. In Personal
Afternoon Heat

I am all bone, tossed in spirit
the blue ends of my dress gather at my thighs

by Instant Karma 32 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 22 6:37 AM 2006. In Spiritual
Miscarriage

I know no beginning,
no remembrance of August

by Instant Karma 10 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 13 10:47 PM 2006. In Sad, Personal
for weeks

The milkweed blooms
sunless, and the poppies are dead.

by Instant Karma 12 lines, on Jul 13 7:27 PM 2006. In Other
dirty.

You are not.
The lovely(ness) I've lost

by Instant Karma 26 lines, on Jul 11 1:17 PM 2006. In Other
The Time of the Butterflies

Four poems on the Mirabal sisters from the novel by Julia Alvarez

by Instant Karma 64 lines, on May 14 7:39 PM 2006. In Other
The house on the hill

-Remember-
I, a little girl

by Instant Karma 27 lines, on May 8 3:07 PM 2006. In Other

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