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Abiquiu, New Mexico »

Flood Watch

the river has receded
but still I am
drowning

my hair has come undone
combs on the river bottom
nosed by sequined fish

round and smooth
as a river-stone
I am falling

trout jump
into the glistening
foaming air

I comb my hair out
in the morning
twist it up along the curve

of the back of my
skull
among the stones

at the bottom
of the river perhaps
I can hold

my breath long enough
to float
to the top

   

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wow that is so awesomely awesome kewl man!! u so rock... i love the poem. u have talent....dont change ur style.

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  • Disclaimer

    Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

    In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

    It is likely to be -- it is best if it is -- a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

    A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think -- but it is not necessarily biographical.


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