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Broken Orbital
burn all the baby clothes / bright enough for the ISS to blink / like an early solstice / pushing back against restful sleep / the blinds lose their colour / a yellowy bleach bloom outside / trying to peer through the fabric / children are so last season / a tired shade of black
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The Decade’s Deductible
a crater in the frozen food aisle / leaves the shoppers whistling high / mark downs have reached the lower mantle / warping all the decimal points / the smiley faces twist into / a dark green smudge / back into the typical atmosphere / blood donors drag their arms / through fresh concrete /
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Capacity Crowd
another child squeezes its soft head into this building / though leaves, flowers, trees, rapids, all is a building / greater, grand opening every day / and sales, sales, sales driven by the commission of exception / on all items born yesterday, still conspiring / why all this wordy faff just drives one crazy /
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A Sign for Language
the sacrificial bull is in love / he’s slammed the gate on territorial battles and / locked stares at passerbys / the short knives make him giggle / he’s stopped drinking / saving the puddles for his own reflection / magpies play hopscotch on his back / he can look at the sun all day
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Closing Night
that last day was a doozy / all the hornets converging, swerving down the street / the chlorinated, ultra blue water / elevating out of swimming pools / the dogs searching for the darkest place they can find / power lines glowing red to green to yellow / enough heat to treble the hairs on
4 replies on “OverPoetry”
Hi, I’m trying to reach the owner of the website.
I named my site over-poetry.com before I realized the over/poetry brand was already taken.
I was hoping we could correspond about one of us changing our brand so we don’t get confused traffic to our websites.
Hi Micah. I replied directly to your email address on June 22.
Feel free to reply.
Cheers.
Hi! I really like your minimal website design. May I ask you what WordPress theme it is? Thanks!
Hi Minju.
I’m using the WordPress Twenty Twenty theme, mainly because it is a clean, easily customizable theme.