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Time Flies Pt. 2

Something there is glowing--
A lightning bug, something

by J. Peoples 13 lines, on Jan 7 3:32 PM
Down by the riverside

The heralds trumpeted to signal the start of the race
The competitors bedecked themselves in all colors

by J. Peoples 13 lines, on Dec 8 4:51 PM 2008
Primates

It’s three in the morning, you’re gone and a man in a gorilla suit

by J. Peoples 41 lines, on Mar 9 4:53 PM 2008
Tsavo Maneaters

Without pride they tore the brown breasts of railroad men
Patrolling the thirsty Kenyan banks with stealthy mien.

by J. Peoples 24 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 16 10:17 AM 2008
Providence (3rd Draft)

Downtown dead trout float
Like silver dollars in the river

by J. Peoples 107 lines, on Jan 29 5:43 PM 2008. In Contemporary
Monkey Poem (part one)

There’s something I’ve been meaning to get off my chest for some time now.
Because that something’s got my goat

by J. Peoples 22 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 23 9:27 PM 2008. In Contemporary
Portsmouth Cafe

How strange you should be here at all, Charles Simic.

by J. Peoples 16 lines, on Jan 23 4:03 PM 2008. In Contemporary

Kancamangus, New Hampshire

Mi cancer es su cancer
so give me a light and we'll live free or die

by J. Peoples 33 lines, on Jan 15 6:25 PM 2008. In Contemporary
Expatriates

Last time we spoke
Your voice was thin

by J. Peoples 39 lines, on Jan 9 5:20 PM 2008. In Contemporary
Blue States (on black fridays)

An Islamic sliver of moon rises—a scythe without a hammer in the Indian-corn blue sky of early evening.

by J. Peoples 44 lines, on Jan 2 7:35 PM 2008
free verse radio sonnet

coded waves stream through the wooden box or they scatter off into the night

by J. Peoples 17 lines, on Jan 2 6:23 PM 2008
Interns (after hours)

Every medical student has a special relationship
with his cadaver.

by J. Peoples 19 lines, on Jan 2 1:54 PM 2008. In Contemporary, Beat
Providence (2nd draft)

Downtown dead perch float like silver
dollars in the river the Narragansett called

by J. Peoples 93 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 27 10:35 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Beat
"One must have a mind of winter"

Principeza, I have waited long for you

by J. Peoples 14 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 24 8:49 PM 2007

In which the author questions his sanity

When the branches still with ice & cold night,
I shall be the one to shake.

by J. Peoples 12 lines, on Dec 24 2:03 PM 2007
rejoinder to aristophanes (from a supermarket)

So people are apples
if apples had ghost pains

by J. Peoples 41 lines, on Dec 16 11:34 AM 2007
I'm finished waiting for you

All morning
specks of dust danced in light &

by J. Peoples 17 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 15 6:33 PM 2007
Blue States

An Islamic sliver of moon rises-- a scythe without a hammer. In the Indian-corn-blue sky of early evening--

by J. Peoples 43 lines, 16 comments, on Nov 29 3:35 PM 2007. In Society, Personal, Contemporary, Beat
the pruning

xsoulangiana the magnolia, for years she hugged brownstone

by J. Peoples 45 lines, on Nov 14 11:08 PM 2007. In Contemporary
emily in the commons

near the frozen
frog pond,

by J. Peoples 41 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 7 4:04 PM 2007. In Contemporary
radio, radio

if i could decode the static / and learn the destination of the radio's waves / which would trail off / into the radiation of night's vast

by J. Peoples 42 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 4 9:45 AM 2007. In Contemporary

barley

long ago an Egyptian farmer

by J. Peoples 21 lines, on Nov 1 7:44 PM 2007. In Beer
Cities Like Mine

Should from the ash of words new cities appear and from their lifeless form steel towers rise

by J. Peoples 17 lines, on Oct 31 3:47 PM 2007. In contemporary sonnet
Truro Memories

In the gallery- its walls painted / in angles of light / your frame stood lovely in its corner-- / engrossed, solitary. / And in mine, I ga

by J. Peoples 42 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 27 5:41 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Art
ghost tree #4

the branches of this haunted tree
are droopy, knotted and reflected

by J. Peoples 33 lines, on Oct 26 12:30 PM 2007. In Contemporary
#5

travelling lone and long
nights on a greyhound

by J. Peoples 6 lines, on Oct 23 3:09 PM 2007. In Short
All-Bright

A film directed by a moron
full of soapy cloth
resembling nothing

by J. Peoples 100 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 16 5:58 PM 2007
brookline(near fall) #3

days of atonement
creep in like

by J. Peoples 107 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 16 5:48 PM 2007
grandfather clock

i was four-and-a-half
the day i killed papa

by J. Peoples 34 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 16 4:30 PM 2007. In Contemporary
ghost tree

You are a ghost tree Your wisps droopy.

by J. Peoples 68 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 4 3:14 PM 2007
Symposium

Human nature you’ll see Is not what it used to be

by J. Peoples 109 lines, on Oct 2 5:45 PM 2007
Love song of a toothpick man

I'm a toothpick man.
My legs have come undone.

by J. Peoples 26 lines, on Sep 27 9:46 AM 2007. In Contemporary
a late summer's evening

Days of atonement
approach with

by J. Peoples 94 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 16 11:15 AM 2007. In Contemporary
Birds and Stories (#2)

You are a ghost tree
Your wisps droopy and dreaming.

by J. Peoples 54 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 12 3:33 PM 2007. In Contemporary
birds and stories

you are the greyest green
on late afternoons

by J. Peoples 51 lines, on Sep 6 5:01 PM 2007. In Contemporary

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