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Blank Verse #6
A BLANK-VERSE POEM A dime, a soul in blackness is its name. The inky spleen attracts passive sanctity; The hole, a thing not round, but stuck in deafness, A…
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Philadelphia
A SONNET Mother, of course, it begins with Mother; I was the first-born there; Intertw ined , inter mingled, our tree, hazy, Difficult to bear, face…
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Blank Verse #5 (or, 'Colleen, the Jellyfish')
A BLANK-VERSE POEM Dancing like a clock ticking in the window, On the door, rapping in silhouettes, In black diamonds, downstairs, on the floor,
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How to Make Pasta Salad
A FREE-VERSE POEM Feta, I need lots of feta in the salad to drive Down the line of aromas and articulate My speech upon another line, or two
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Blank Verse #4 (or 'The Merman')
A BLANK-VERSE POEM Brown skin, like mine, of bread was eaten, like Punch, like fruit. Turpentine. In its descent, The bird—a fine man—the pocked, the smea…
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Blank Verse #3
A BLANK-VERSE POEM The cat-man of a fairytale, the galaxy Man, raw Saturn’s smile, or the last fire— The wolfman, my old father, kidnapped me Within holy, …
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Blank Verse #2 (or '5')
A BLANK-VERSE POEM Drunk-aware, Its Bimbo—the heir —the ironic Devil- red; it gallops slowly onward On its cusp of draping, blackest adders; The Ziz , elde…
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- Blaire Boston
- Blaire Boston is a writer and graphic designer living on the East Coast, USA. She writes literary fiction, short stories, and poetry.
