Carrying his bucket,
looking for work, he
trudged from
Punchbowl to Waikiki
every day on
thick calloused feet,
and scribbled poems
in his book
at night
(158 characters incl. spaces)
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MORE FROM THIS POET: A selection of my micropoetry!
- Cheap reading glasses >
10.99 a pair,
two for 16.00
black plastic
specks
enlarge the
world just
enough.
(97 characters incl. spaces)
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- Still Strangers >
Each day we leave
at the same time,
our eyes don’t quite meet,
we’re not about to speak, but
our legs march together
in rhythm.
(130 characters incl. spaces)
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- Revisiting the old house >
Years pass,
and the doors sag a little lower,
that’s all.
(58 characters incl. spaces)
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- Museum for Obsolete Lonely Sounds >
Old-fashioned dial tone,
blues singer fading to needle hiss,
train whistle, and the
not-quite silent radio
after the Country K.A.R.L.
sign-off prayer at 3:00 a.m.
(142 characters incl. spaces)
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- Menacing Night >
What craziness takes you out tonight?
Moonlight will hit your car window. Hard.
Crows will rise above the bridge,
turn, look at you.
They are not birds.
Stay.
(160 characters incl. spaces)
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- Anything can happen >
Living on a tropical island,
anything is possible.
A rare wild orchid might
open delicate pink petals
in a patch of dirt
beneath
the freeway.
(157 characters incl. spaces)
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