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for my father, on his birthday

From you I learned that the sun is only another star,
and some days it cannot warm you

by vaguelyfamiliar 31 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 28 3:23 PM. In Contemporary, Personal, Father
c, i know we are different and yet in so many ways the same

Your mother is dying.
It is not an elegant death,

by vaguelyfamiliar 42 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 21 9:18 AM
To James: You Were a Mystery, Maybe a Robot

by vaguelyfamiliar 28 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 17 2:43 AM. In Contemporary, Personal
what my father says when he doesn't realize i'm listening

by vaguelyfamiliar 17 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 6 9:10 PM. In Contemporary, Personal, Father
Nathaniel Did Not Kiss Me on the Waterfront

Boston is a mystery.

by vaguelyfamiliar 26 lines, 8 comments, on Oct 29 1:42 AM. In Contemporary, Personal
daily vignette; oct 10th, 2009

My father tells me I'm a witch.
A good one, maybe. His guardian angel.

by vaguelyfamiliar 8 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 12 12:43 PM. In Contemporary, Personal, Father
flower child, devil tongue

Your blow-up doll love.
Your wild frantic ugly hands.

by vaguelyfamiliar 24 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 12 12:33 PM. In Contemporary, Personal

most beautiful stranger

by vaguelyfamiliar 12 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 3 3:54 AM
an open letter to the other coast

I wonder if our blood can hold together across three thousand miles
of flat Americana.

by vaguelyfamiliar 41 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 17 5:29 PM. In Contemporary, Personal
this is about a cat

half-blind, he is staring at me
like I am a ghost.

by vaguelyfamiliar 14 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 17 10:51 AM
love mantra for the 21st century

Sometimes it's good to get out of my own skin,
slink quietly into someone else's.

by vaguelyfamiliar 44 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 6 7:30 PM. In Contemporary, Personal, Spiritual, Inspirational
there is a place inside

by vaguelyfamiliar 94 lines, on Sep 1 5:31 PM
resignation

Not a poem, per se. Dialogue. Love? Something like that.

by vaguelyfamiliar 30 lines, on Aug 26 11:36 PM. In Dialogue, Contemporary, Noguest
this would have been your birthday

like a wasp, you never gave up
until someone smacked you dead.

by vaguelyfamiliar 45 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 26 10:33 PM. In Contemporary, Personal, Pain, Addiction

up there, there are only dead stars

do you remember the way we kissed each other?
After our tongues all we had was the silence

by vaguelyfamiliar 50 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 23 6:54 PM. In Contemporary, Personal, Spiritual
what my mother can still offer me

by vaguelyfamiliar 24 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 22 12:37 PM. In Contemporary, Personal, Grandmother
ali, infinite point singularity

You said you could taste
the black hole vacuum of my tears,

by vaguelyfamiliar 28 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 12 1:16 AM. In Contemporary, Personal
when you asked what it felt like when you touched me

like lightning like kite strings
let loose and wild midnights

by vaguelyfamiliar 16 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 4 3:23 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, Sex
look here daddy, your daughter is a queer

My mother opened up her wide pink palms and plunked down in front of me twenty-three years of regrets. "I don't want these," I said

by vaguelyfamiliar 10 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 25 3:50 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, Pain
kiss the clouds

(it is warm here, and we are dancing.)

by vaguelyfamiliar 56 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 18 2:38 AM. In Contemporary, Personal
the last time i saw her

first poem in awhile. tear it apart, please.

by vaguelyfamiliar 26 lines, on Jun 11 7:27 PM. In Contemporary, Personal, Pain

not masturbation (a title in progress)

oh wide, hips like mountains, breath steamrolling mountaintops, weightless,
high like kite strings

by vaguelyfamiliar 26 lines, 3 comments, on May 23 2:56 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, Journey, Self-Love
making due [NaPoMo #19]

under my bed
the monsters are ravenous.

by vaguelyfamiliar 12 lines, on Apr 27 11:41 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo
david, this is how i will say goodbye [NaPoMo #18]

This is the sound when he is gone--
metal upon metal like old gears,

by vaguelyfamiliar 26 lines, on Apr 27 11:38 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo
'i don't understand how you can let these people sleep in your house' [NaPoMo #17]

I will tell you this: The closest to homeless I've ever been
was sleeping in a park in San Antonio,

by vaguelyfamiliar 54 lines, on Apr 27 11:34 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo
bone dry [NaPoMo #16]

dry me out. i am sopping wet with tears
wrung through me clothing line.

by vaguelyfamiliar 31 lines, on Apr 27 2:52 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo
impressions [NaPoMo #15]

upon first glance
the fish was in a frying pan.

by vaguelyfamiliar 9 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 27 2:34 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo
realizations (junkie night, june 2006) [NaPoMo #14]

oh oh oh what have i become,
transfixed

by vaguelyfamiliar 21 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 27 2:29 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo
while in the artists' commune, before i turn away [NaPoMo #13]

by vaguelyfamiliar 17 lines, on Apr 27 2:10 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo
love love love love [NaPoMo #12]

(might need a real title eventually)

by vaguelyfamiliar 17 lines, on Apr 27 1:59 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo
predictable [NaPoMo #11]

(I don't know why I miss you)

by vaguelyfamiliar 52 lines, on Apr 13 1:49 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo, Noguest
ghost of a theory [NaPoMo #10]

In the parking lot of OfficeMax,
off of 5th Avenue,

by vaguelyfamiliar 26 lines, on Apr 13 1:43 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo
dynamic [NaPoMo #9]

Do you keep your fireflies in jars?
They will suffoate on so much light,

by vaguelyfamiliar 30 lines, on Apr 12 3:50 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo
October 17th, 2008 [NaPoMo #8]

I make tea by the harsh glow of the kitchen light,
step over the grumbling, dreamy dog,

by vaguelyfamiliar 26 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 12 3:40 AM. In Contemporary, Personal, NaPoMo
wayne, the things you have left have become a part of me

There is a sock in the closet
with a hole in the heel. I should throw it out.

by vaguelyfamiliar 26 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 7 10:36 PM. In Contemporary, Personal, Memories

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