Five Poems

Hello friends,

Five small poems this week. Enjoy! (And if you do, please consider supporting my work by purchasing either my omnibus edition Knit Ink (and Other Poems) or something from my store.)

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SOHO (Palindrome)

Nightlife’s 
able to make
esteemed art 
Soho’s trade:
Meet, 
seek a motel —
base filth, gin....

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AT DAWN (Anagrammed Lines)

Shades flood dawn, in a memory
of meadows and soil and rhyme —
in dreams made only of shadow…. 

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DEEP SLEEP (Palindrome-Haiku)

Led north, gilded dew….
A deep sleep’s eyes peel, speed a
wedded, light rondel.

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NIGHT (Anagram-Tanka)

Oh, instead paint gloom:
At night, some old piano.
A pained, moonlit ghost.
The dim sonata pooling
a poem in light and soot.…

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DEVIL (Palindrome)

Lived amiss, I hide.
I burn my honeyed eye.
No hymn rubied, I hiss.
I’m a devil.