Category Archives: Line-a-day Poem

One line per day becomes a long poem after a year!

wherever he looks around him.

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Few understand what he sees

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his vantage all his own.

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Heavy set, teen-tall,

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What future, the boy?

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not at what the future wrought.

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to the past, its promise then,

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Better to look past,

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at least not as closely.

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Better not to look,

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spider veins, pockmarks, wide pores.

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Reveal him, a landscape of

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transferred onto skin.

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Years become topography,

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His face displeases.

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to one dimension: surface.

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frames his vision, confines him

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An iron mirror

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sees his life in retrospect.

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Bent, curved, lined, he lives,

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protects better than the skull.

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Mesh, when bent, curved, sewn, stapled,

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of titanium.

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a post-modern construction

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Or not? Love’s fabric:

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who fall from where they were bound.

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Slender strands release lovers

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rent by deception.

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as fragile as gossamer

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The fabric of love,

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