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craig2 archive of published lines and poems on Linespedia.
"Evening breezes forever quench the parched pain of a labor’s day, waves of soft moon-dyed mist break purple on the rail, the bubbles crest, exploding in silence. Caress the salt-stained stigmata, o..."
"He was what he repressed, ignored, denied, resisted, like the pale and knotted crust of a limp and aged hand reality's veneer was shattered by a phantasmagoric sleep. The apocalypse of him as him - a..."
"On a couch made of clouds like a mist in a dream it will come to you and you will hasten - in shoes made of dusk running you headlong into the dark, trampling unseen, out of control toward an intuiti..."
"Tryst Among strangers she would steal a stare, speak of Egypt and China in no uncertain terms, of social mores, decadence, moralities old and new. Alone as the sex matured between us, her eyes care..."
"Like Adam’s rib you take a piece of me, many pieces of me, digest my paltry worth, make it better, meaningful. Ribbons of sun soaked heat pulse through the Venetian blinds, illuminate a solar grid ac..."
"The world is mine now and yet I am quiet,groping, then guided anxiously like a plant to light beyond a dark immediate interlude.The memory of essence past dulls, coagulates, ..."
"Quest Stranded, taking again nearly as many years, I retraced my life – connecting every silver hair that had fallen from my head – creating yet a new maze through the forest of my youth. Seizing Sp..."
"Two friends parting, one young; one younger, and beginning a pilgrimage in search of himself. Come with you? I’m not that young – though the rest of my life will not be what I inte..."
"When chronic taut muscles and bed sheets strain insomnolence, the body rickets, lumped and fetal, struggling in its own existence. Skin shrivels sugar brown, grows cancered with stubbled matted ha..."
"Hallucination and manic glimpse of foreheads loping into corners, squared to meet the room. Securities, posits of finite held fast with concrete nails, glued taut with foam from the mouth - idle lan..."
"I have not written as one banished, amnesiaed by the promise of a letter to a one-night stand, but writhing in insomnia with dull subconscious lust. Zigzagged, diverted like one from a lover [the a..."
"I have never mentioned your beauty, yet that is why I write, to cup the youth of spring-like love and childhood days in the park. I’ve climbed the helpful oak as the sun moved from the clouds and only..."
"Asphalt Cancer Last night I watched the sidewalk quiver, and spasm with God’s caress, through tufts of moss in concrete cracks chameleon in their finesse. The trickle in the gutter gushed over brick..."
"In younger days naivete, your smiles by my side, my lies, fantasies - your name haunted me as though it were my own. By chance we spoke, danced through dreams - clowns in a medieval play - mocking pha..."
"Polo and Marcyannounce their engagement,Edwardo demonstrates his backhand,Bishop Sheen glares smilingly over his mint iced tea,and as the olive turns in my stomachI spill martinion my new flannel pant..."
"As we contend with the human need To crush ivory into favorite forms, Dramatize idols stiff, stillborn – We dedicate this runic seed In an effort to overcome the creed Of no..."
"Eyes of the soul rooted in primal need, filled with common joy, borrowed many times from the pool of common conscienc..."
"I have one toothbrush too many; not even counting the one for travel. and so they rotate. I can’t account for it either; one I know I killed ..."
"I will live in a tent on the lawn of someone rich who doesn’t care I’m there. No one will be the wiser no address, cell phone, email or high tea. No one will be ..."
"Liquid waves of concrete heat stop solar plexus high, knowing knees and callused feet keep rhythm as battered wheels ..."
"When two or more are gathered to bleach shattered praise, cleanse violent need, the majesty of mob abso..."
"Dubbed to be a student of peculiar and incredible potency but of meager and limited means your sizarship begins with being pecunilia..."
"A mother-like gravity has awakened me as if its laser has matched my force, watching earth move through space as a speck of dust through a lapse, only to be consumed by a sperm-like amoebae. Meditat..."
"Cash was the only syllable that remained remotely understood. And food, food like rodent’s food - and slime. It was within this time that death as death was nearly overlooked. Concepts like loves a..."
"Parched rust running in terminal driving rain, silt soft settles down. Written December 7th, 2001 © on Jan 13 2002 11:50 AM PST 0 • 10"
"Lazarus bloomed, I need another garden, white roses wilt the way. Written December 8th, 2001 © on Jan 13 2002 11:52 AM PST 0 • 10"
"Quiet stillness as the dripping kitchen faucet pauses patient foreplay. Written December 8th, 2001 © on Jan 13 2002 12:07 PM PST 0 • 10"
"Swollen city streets, stale slime smell in the rain, never as it seems. Written December 8th, 2001 © on Jan 13 2002 11:56 AM PST 0 • 10"
"Peter quoting Old Testament Joel about speaking in tongues, “God will pour His spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophecy and see visions and your old men dream dreams. The moun..."
"You told me that in the company of others I should adore you, respect you - then added immediately, adamantly, that beyond the walls of the world, you needed me to consume you often, intensely, ev..."
"That next new concept - the one you’ve never known, or to recapture forgotten vintage - that next unique high, the one you’ve never known, or to be more precise the you you’ve never tried. Then throu..."
"With all the wrath of the Mencken wit I criticized the critics, mocked their lives as words. With all the pride of adolescence, verbiage of a life’s work I sought the renaissance, fought the holocaus..."
"The forest danced in carnival delight with leaves in clown’s regalia, rustling mostly where she stepped promising to follow, as though this trail as old as gypsy sensed the fire for entertainment tha..."
"A pickaxe and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet; O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a quest is meet. - Shakespeare Life has been a thankless dream And I the ..."
"One friend tells me his cardiologist sees problems with his left ventricle. Another friend tells me he is two weeks a new father and I should stay in closer touch. One friend says that sobriety would ..."
"Tripping into court our hero cringes silently, bells on the tips of his toes exaltedly clang his life’s work - leotard and tassels splash gangly to the tune. Lohengrin was toasted here from marble mu..."
""Since there is no help Come let us kiss and part" - Michael Drayton Michael staring, gasping, gnawing life through drawn gray lids on rat-hot eyes, scavenges sixteenth century Ch..."
"I am attracted to, you repelled by the same unique characteristic - like a dangling magnet with changing fields the soul-searching need for reasons to have and to have not - as opposed somehow to a..."
"Quiet penance seeking the inner labyrinth of the mind, the lone passion of retreat ignores the autumn chill. Day breaks on intense introspection, like lightning seeking the horizon, the monotone rh..."
"The dots of day hang lightly together, the tender rain leaves purple dew, the air is thick with the deep fragrance of a million tiny homeless pets and life and now (a mutant force) to natural efforts ..."
"Orson, of the trinket wares, peddler of aerosol flesh stands glassy-eyed, naked in front of Saks. Dolls, mistresses in the window..."
"To know it all, to be it all is more than way too much. The filter keeping us from oneness clogs,hardens ..."
"Frost-bitten wall of crackled, crystallized caramel; immense, fluorescent, breathing mass of stoppage, deliberately picked at, bitten, mazed cleavage to a Pacific calm. Perched on the peak of a conti..."
"She was frivolous, thin and tan. I was forty and sick of my job. She was talkative, naked except for my shirt. She told me she was chilled, I covered her, caressed her thigh. She said she was bored..."
"Libra – ’74 Your voice, perhaps the only one I hear. Yes, the one I know I hear. Your touch, never foreign, like my own only real. Your love, though you can’t abstract it races frantic symmetry, ci..."
"My six year old son told me God came out of a crack in the core of the earth, spread himself over its surface creating trees, grass, animals - then continued throughout the universe on his trek to be..."
"Take me literally regardless of the hour or the alcohol consumed. Believe that I believe that while I know I do not know ..."
"There is a Jesus Revolutionary Party and the only five year plan they need is to make every day a Golgotha every night a Gethsemane. The modus operandi being that each calendar day of the year be assi..."
"To empathize without restraint is strangely suicidal, you rambling fools content to write yourselves another Bible have traveled long to Lisa’s whore to drink the never-ending, but you’ll be delayed i..."
"With rubber band and paper clip they tried to bring you down. Then, saving expended clips, a search in vain and gutters for your own unique device. A necessary, futile, self-destructive struggle a..."
"A fawn jerks its head in terror, rabbits scatter, shudder with mice under damp rocks; Conversation has come to the forest, the clothed-one will appear. Blessed with arbitrariness, language, Godli..."
"I want to walk where Christ walked barefoot and naked – dogs will gather quickly, they will bite my ankles, lead the way, scenting the adrenaline eating my insides, purpling my skin. Tattooed harlots..."
"The feeble written wit taps through the fog with an old man’s cane, while the pompous elegant verse strides briskly past, seeking reality at the sidewalk’s end. … Silently surveying his gutter world ..."
"Purple lilacs perfume this clinical purity with a syruppy air, brown leather straps, prisoner in a white sea, silver bed pan ready for escape. Purple, brown, silver and white – pretenders to reality..."
"Like your sex - private, protruding, surrounded, alone, wet on all sides breaks the horizon. Oasis waves pound delicate, wanton shores, blue consciousness escapes burdens of thought - succumbs to org..."
"Elevator ride, fingers in fist, rehearsing touch in the room – evening in April, no one writing our song, naked, all the lights on. The demon holding me is crafty and old, hear it breathing in strob..."
"Ming mountains move slowly to humps in dusk, old men of the planet. Written December 17th, 2001 © on Jan 13 2002 11:58 AM PST 0 • 10"
"Solstice sun diamonded ice gems cover the driveway, new skates for Christmas. Written December 18th, 2001 © on Jan 13 2002 12:00 PM PST 0 • 10"