Bookkeeping
the taste of
an over-hasty dinner
where we cook books
Cheerful poems
Cheerful poems — a collection of the best works on PoemShip.
Fair ground
all summer is a fair
the more I see the more I rove
lane by lane
a dance of loose doors
thoughts but no fur
found in burrows
Terra firma
home from the water
the children make me a present
of a stick
Sweet talker
among the things I am
live many expressions of love
an art with great satisfaction
to me and my dog
Straight shooter
the first morning
of my promise not to lie
my promise of the child in me
I say bring me
a gun to wear
red locks almost look natural
Hipsters
cold as our black clothes
our hands reckon and point
and all night my left
testicle aching
Old wino
so old to get so lit
liver like a lie
on behalf of the sun
Shameless
I get a prodigious kick out of shame
my own hands foul my fingers
let me suffer for it a little
let me make my own afternoon bed
Social kissing
this token kiss is not
an open door
a hope preserve
or sin to us
it is fleet
home and then off
In praise of fire
who is against fire
besides books
it is sand on the back
a kiss in the dark
nothing but the opinion
of a match
or a masquerade
where antique dresses dance
Hare-brained
a hare on the white hill
and me at the office
which is which
I may alter my opinion
who is really mad
the office squeezing
but me out of order
Match maker
I sing the head of a match
that ingenious red tune
it merits a good anthem
sung to the trumpet
o wing of my being
sweet evening prayer
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