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Category: Poems

The Alchemy of Rumcake

March 26, 2017 melissabond Leave a comment

The Alchemy of Rumcake It starts like this – there is no other way. You must begin with a pound…

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Posted in: Food, Poems

Yellow Chicken is an Act of Love

March 16, 2017 melissabond Leave a comment

It’s in the small acts that we show our love. The rice soaked, then washed over and again, as one…

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Posted in: Love, Poems

ODE TO JED

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since feeling is first in the heart of the man that pays attention jed is that man whose chest burns…

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Posted in: Men, Poems

HUSH

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Because mama locked me out when the white powder made her nose bleed and I cried and said stop and…

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Posted in: Addiction, Poems

LOVE’S REGENERATION

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Give away your left pinkie toe. There is nothing more for you to do. It is not yours anyway. If…

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Posted in: Love, Poems

FLOWERS FOR A DANDELION

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Your simplicity shames me. You house yourself in the fingers of small cracks, in fistfuls of soil, in yards left…

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Posted in: Love, Poems

Abacus

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In the end, despite the months of physical and occupational therapy, the question is always the same: How retarded exactly…

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Posted in: Motherhood, Poems

Dear Little Fish,

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There are a myriad of names I could call you—Little Papaya, minor Oblongata and Action Hero being the most current…

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Posted in: Motherhood, Poems

THE FULL ASCENDENCE OF BEARD

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There’s a beard which—in the spectrum of beard—falls far forward, into the full ascendance of beard—a beard which speaks of…

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Posted in: Men, Poems

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