Crackdown
we must shut up shop
on a meat-dark night
business keeping us naked
in a rich city
having already spent
one year’s share of our fear
Poems on the topic: fear
Poems on the topic “fear” on Poets.by.
Carrion-eater
in the city lately blown up
we fear the never-done raven
how superficial a fisher
without loss or compass
the thing just may get by
Stoner
getting high I fear
I have made myself
debtor to joy
like some question I discharge
into the quiet
Progeny
I spent all morning preserving
a collection of cries
work and desire
greed and fear and love
to show publicly if I should die
without children
Jailer
I have not made as much
as I would choose
but I keep all doubt locked up
a nonsensical thing
I fear as a cousin of the hive
Out of time
where will I go to hunt
our own hour together
I fell into the night
and melted almost to water
I could not hear and this made me fear
that there was some thief of noise
The long view
when at a distance the enemy appear on a hill
it is no disaster for the hill
the water singing to the bridge
is past all fear
the night itself is safe
however we roar
Survey
in constant fear
I survey my heart for hope
an acre of land bought
for nothing but a laugh
Anorexic
I am preparing a fat lie
about myself
making me better
than all my fear of fat
I gain and so
a little off
who is ill
Hibernal
what fear at every cough
in the coffee house
the poorest body
must be a winter
made of a hundred fish
with snow at the bottom
the dead come to life
flesh hollow as wax
they inhabit
the violence of the winds
and no dog but a wolf
could help us take joy
Chewing
night tooth
bland antagonist of visions
and their distant words
I fear it as I do all
bad company
Freak show
I work and sweat to get away
itching
all foot and fin
I am who I fear seeing
in my closet at night
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