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Poems by milkdrop, by newest first

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  • an explanation
    I try to be reasonable but it’s hard when everything is an omen:
    by milkdrop 17 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 6 3:42 PM
  • cassie, the dockyards are asleep
    these
    fields of wheat ripple
    by milkdrop 14 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 12 8:54 PM
  • anemone
    in darkness you are neither plant nor animal
    just blind rippling phalanges
    by milkdrop 21 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 14 10:14 PM
  • it is my curse to never forget
    it is my curse to never forget
    even if I wanted to
    by milkdrop 31 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 6 4:00 PM
  • june first
    today the poppies bloomed
    the old cat caught and ate a squirrel
    by milkdrop 19 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 1 6:56 PM
  • a final tulip for penelope, shallowly planted
    i exhaust myself with words
    explanations
    by milkdrop 51 lines, 2 comments, on May 5 10:10 AM
  • another spring haiku
    dandelions, then
    grass- a long red hair shimmers,
    by milkdrop 4 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 29 3:37 PM
  • iris
    something about them always scared you-
    their large insolent faces
    by milkdrop 28 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 26 12:50 AM
  • to sage
    the world demands a lot of a mother
    this I know, though the littleness of your hands astounds me
    by milkdrop 47 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 20 1:04 AM
  • winter haiku
    cats footprints leading nowhere
    the toolshed's roof begins
    by milkdrop 12 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 19 8:20 PM 2008
  • jellybean john
    jellybean john has died
    there are no more snowmen made of walnuts
    by milkdrop 35 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 13 9:22 AM 2008
  • far star
    "God, there is so much of everything!"
    your voice is a stained glass window in the soundlessness of night
    by milkdrop 43 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 3 8:45 AM 2008
  • sorry
    i want you to fold me up
    and put me away
    by milkdrop 27 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 25 9:31 AM 2008
  • paper
    each day, your face surprises itself with sadness.
    by milkdrop 19 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 20 9:15 AM 2008
  • for orin
    up close your eyes are like the insides of houses
    by milkdrop 7 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 17 5:44 PM 2008
  • someday the parking lots will be empty
    9 o'clock finally
    the break room buzzes dismally
    by milkdrop 28 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 12 12:51 AM 2007
  • telos
    how we devote ourselves to the absurd / naive housewives with bloated hairdos / make precise incisions in potatos / while dreaming of sex a
    by milkdrop 21 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 27 1:12 PM 2007
  • weight
    we rode to your apartment in a poignant silence. / your red pickup truck swayed back and forth / in hasty elegance. / with every right turn, my stomach dropped to my feet / forged in iron, wrought by the tenacious cla
    by milkdrop 45 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 10 11:09 AM 2007
  • heaven is a place full of kites
    there was a day when your eyes turned to dolls' eyes / sad, dimly conquered / and your mouth was a pitted peach / dried and incomplete / / and your clothes began to hang in a way / that a
    by milkdrop 23 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 25 2:07 PM 2007
  • four haikus about love
    rainy evening
    cool smell of stone
    by milkdrop 15 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 6 11:50 PM 2007
  • retreat
    we drove to Harwinton
    windows open, tasting the air
    by milkdrop 31 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 7 10:44 AM 2007
  • armageddon
    by milkdrop 52 lines, 10 comments, on Feb 7 10:07 AM 2007
  • love, limit
    there would seem to be an infinite number of things in this world
    to extend the sense of understanding towards.
    by milkdrop 22 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 30 3:04 PM 2006
  • teresa
    she is someone's mother because
    by milkdrop 177 lines, 13 comments, on Nov 17 5:47 PM 2006
  • to fall in love on a train
    I am eighteen years old
    still flipping through atlases
    by milkdrop 17 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 9 11:06 PM 2006. In Love
  • penelope learns to write
    penelope learned to write
    when she first tossed her neck to be kissed
    by milkdrop 35 lines, 8 comments, on Oct 7 8:29 PM 2006. In Personal
  • the atom and the void
    maria is languid on the bed
    beneath her clavicle lays a dark
    by milkdrop 19 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 7 10:12 PM 2006. In Other
  • the exalted geometry of being
    early autumn
    dappled earth falls from the trees
    by milkdrop 39 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 6 12:06 PM 2006. In Nature
  • i wouldn't mind dying with you i don't think
    i wouldn't mind dying with you i don't think.
    we'd be all cute and smug and high.
    by milkdrop 26 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 20 10:36 PM 2006. In Love
  • man shampoo
    in the bath today i used a man's shampoo.
    the scent was striking, a fragrant glacier of
    by milkdrop 38 lines, 16 comments, on Aug 17 11:58 PM 2006. In Other
  • mallbird
    I saw you there, perched on the rafters,
    a thin anachronism, unfettered
    by milkdrop 28 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 12 9:33 AM 2006. In Nature
  • untitled poem
    by milkdrop 22 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 8 11:37 AM 2006. In Love
  • dread
    "One may liken dread to dizziness. He whose eye chances to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy." --Kierkegaard
    by milkdrop 28 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 24 2:57 PM 2006. In Other
  • pangea
    when the earth was flat
    and ripe, and riddled with dew
    by milkdrop 71 lines, 17 comments, on Apr 22 10:59 AM 2006. In Personal
  • Epiphany
    lines of wooden pewsdotted with nodding wooden headscold hands p
    by milkdrop 45 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 16 6:31 PM 2006. In Society
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