The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 10/4/2008)

[RetroLounge]

Going to be leaving in a hour for Pittsburgh, be back Tuesday.

I'll post poems when I can find wireless...

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Licorice

If it's been over ten years since you last tried

black licorice, you may now love it.
If you come across a bus stop in mid-December
someone may have written i heart you with
their finger on the window's condensation.

It may be fresh enough you can tell

where she pressed her forefinger down
hardest and whether or not she wore gloves.

It may be that what you think is love

Is no more so than a clump of pink insulation
hanging strangely in a trashed storefront

is a freshly butchered ham.

If you sleep like a manger scene
boxed up in the attic for half a century
you may be in love, have some rare
form of bipolar, or both, plus really thirsty.
There is an explanation for the river's
freezing only at the mouth of its tributary,

translucent necklace of ice.

It may be you are actually as alone as you feel,
that it will only exponentiate.
That this is what scared you so much in the darkness.

Listen to me, saying what I know about it.

Daniel Hales

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:hi:

RL

[Guava Jelly]

1. ..

And where might you be going MR?? Certainly not to see a certain pastry ;)

[RetroLounge]

6. Pastry is better than Tart (so she says)

:hi:

RL

[Guava Jelly]

7. She is better than any pastry

:) I hope you two are enjoying your time together.
:hi:

[RetroLounge]

9. We are, we are...

:evilgrin:

RL

[YankeyMCC]

2. Those lines about the bus stop in winter

and the finger writing in the frost poke at many early winter mornings of my school days.

thanks

[Chorophyll]

3. As my favorite creative writing teacher would say,

lovely tactile details.

Safe travels! :hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. from licorice to lonliness...nice.

damn.

have a safe trip.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Retro...

This is lovely...

I especially like this part:

It may be you are actually as alone as you feel,
that it will only exponentiate.
That this is what scared you so much in the darkness.

Have a great trip!

Stay safe...

Thank you...

[BarenakedLady]

8. Give her a hug for me.

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

10. You got it...

:hug:

RL