PARALLEL POEMS

Poetry found by combining things – two tracks sometimes almost meeting, sometimes forking

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

seven planes 
septangulating 
on still points

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

leaf mulch
subject verb and object
in disarray

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

may day! may day!
the entire shebang
is crashing down

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

winter wind
a girl tunes in 
to the pine

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

right wing bias
passengers hurtle towards
a revolution

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

leaf shadows
dancing with the languor
of the sun

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

no trump deal
with each breath
caring less

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

half a day-moon
sunset cannot tint it
in blazing clouds

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

word-weak moon
awe erupts from me
in groans

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

cold comfort . . .
my breath blooms in
suspended animation

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

manna . . .
dewfallen light
by darkness

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017
  • H Gene Murtha Contest 2017

mirror mist
I almost believe
that I'm real


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

post-op ward
the trickle-down effect
of catheters

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

bent on freezing 
dewdrops on bended knees

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017
  • H Gene Murtha Contest 2017

seven billion
of us interpreting
silence


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

pressure-cooked
in his uterine tomb
my son sheds his skin

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017

twumpeet
a world hangs on
evewy word

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: May 2017
russet leaves downstream
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