Poetry
Poetry: Doomsday
By Grayce Scholt Aug 2011
My right foot fallingon a forest floor
destroys ten thousand
living things;
I'm war machine
to worms and
wings.
I stand as only I can stand,
not like the crane who curls
one leg beneath its...
Poetry: tuesday, august 23, 2011, flint, michigan
By kj hooten Aug 2011
did my point seven mile — each way — stint to the post officethis morning
through quiet city streets
lined with well coiffed end-of-summer lawns
quietly displaying pink and red and white...
Poetry: Hide/Seek, Revisited
By Grayce Scholt Jul 2011
The vineyard hadn't changedwhen I returned. The same green vines
were there, though thicker hanging,
the same unpainted poles,
though lower leaning.
I searched the tangled tendrils
for purple...
Poetry: I’m not a fan, but I did pay attention, once
By KJ Hooten Jul 2011
my bedroom is a public roomit houses two bookcases
floor to near ceiling
it has a big soft chair
what used to be called a club chair
(whatever that means)
when my grandfather used it
an uncle on...
Poetry: Portrait of fisherman at twilight
By Grayce Scholt Jun 2011
Somewhere on a box in the basementis a note that says "To sort." It's where
the scraps of life long past are stuffed.
My father's in there somewhere
standing by a poplar stump.
He's cleaning...
Poetry: 85 degrees Fahrenheit
By KJ Hooten Jun 2011
Closing the door on the silent houseI step outside into the newly green
Bird noisy day
To go for a walk
I look at the grass and trees
Some bushes have broken out in huge deep pink blossoms
Almost...
Poetry: I spent my morning counting miracles
By Grayce Scholt May 2011
I spent my morning counting miracles:how I am held in gravity's sweet force
in spite of earth's twice-spinning rings —
how can that be?
or that the sun's quadrillion
heat degrees have never...
Poetry: Commencements
By Grayce Scholt Apr 2011
Into each other's state we pass,showing visas, paying coins;
at this gray gate
our countries meet
though no lands join;
our height is noted only
in the towers that top
the pilings deep beneath the...
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