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Posted by jonfrankel on May 13, 2020 in Poetry | 0 comments

PARIS BURNING

PARIS BURNING April. Dark delays of winter come.Behind the shutters blind mad hatters play with diceRolling snow and clay and fire.At the edges, small ceramic...

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 27, 2020 in Poetry | 0 comments

BATS

Bats hang from trees like angels above the silent empty streets they drop and creep from door to door sword in hand where love sleeps in the depths of unlit corridors...

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 27, 2020 in Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

CROWDS

How easily their hands went in the air In the town we thought they were waving At first a few rolled to the sand Like beach bathers stunned in the waves Recumbent they...

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 27, 2020 in Poetry | 0 comments

Ads for the Universe

Disconnected words dangle from wires Ads for the universe personals And for sale serpents wound cool and tight The anaconda muscles of weight trainers Limbs of leafless...

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 15, 2020 in Poetry | 0 comments

Sick Tiger

SICK TIGER The tiger dives at the window of her cage Her paws hang in the light, rough black pads. Skeletal trees cast black bars across Dead leaves, obsidian water...

Posted by jonfrankel on Mar 31, 2020 in Poetry | 0 comments

SAD SONGS

It is good to play sad songs in the heat Light ripples the mirrored faces of trees Ages ago the day completed repeated Asteroids and comets streak the evening sky A...

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