Haiku

Knowing it will end:

Life’s most rewarding excuse

For not beginning.



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Urban Renewal

Your conversation

with him is the home from which

I was evicted

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La Sol y La Luna*

The sun always wears
a pair of black four-inch heels
The moon goes barefoot

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*I know, I know--"sol" is masculine, but for the poem to work, they both have to be feminine; and I'm also riffing on this great restaurant in Austin, so it's not only bad grammar but a bad pun.

4 lessons from 2011

1

If I speak your name

I’ll become untouchable

and not an option

2

Nothing like shared grief

to make a detached soul feel

like embracing life

3

Imaginary meals

can only ever feed

imaginary appetites

4

I want no part of it

but I will always feel hurt

if I’m not invited

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Mortality

Lulled by the mundane
we sleepwalk through gleaming knives
and think we're special



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cardiac larceny

Since you stole my heart,
the one thing I can’t die of?
A coronary.


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skin game

Love’s the lingerie
that propagation puts on
to look dead sexy

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Forget about chromosomes

If the guy just shares
what he does, not what he feels,
then I'm the girl here.



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Andra

You said “I love you”--
three words that gave me new life
your silence murders


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Gayle

I always miss you
whenever I wake up in
someone else's bed


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Lee

I hate you because
you cannot give me what I need
to despise myself


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