Small Stones

Sunday Small Stone

evening’s third
frantic clang

of fire
alarm where fire
is not

bruises the head
past Saturday drinking

drowns out the blades
and engines in

still faintly lit
night sky

I love writing small stones.

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Sunday Small Stone

beyond the buzz of orange light
and rush of cars
                 on rain-dark street

the heartbeat of a car alarm
goes in and out
like stars behind the wind-cold clouds

I love writing small stones.

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Sunday Small Stone

rain traces
last shards of light

on the window
at the gray
end of the gray day

before the dark
-er gray
of night

I love writing small stones.

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Sunday Small Stone

arc of orange glares
over arc of dark
pavement 

           rowhouses
melt into each other
's windowframes 

whiter than the lit-
bulb freckles of this night

I love writing small stones.

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  • @KristenSahara
    Agreed. I try to write poems with interesting imperfections instead.
    2012/05/18 01:15
  • @nomopoetry
    @dagny Then like I said you'll love Lindley Murray.
    2012/05/17 22:46
  • @nomopoetry
    @dagny OK, if you want to cling to Strunk and White, that's your business.
    2012/05/17 22:18
  • @nomopoetry
    @dagny That would mean striking most of the book. It's not just dated; it was wrong to begin with.
    2012/05/17 22:15
  • @nomopoetry
    @dagny But surely that can be taught without the baseless prescriptivism wrapping?
    2012/05/17 22:13
  • @nomopoetry
    @dagny Formative of what exactly? Linguistic prejudices unrelated to real usage? Why not go all the way & read Lindley Murray?
    2012/05/17 22:51
  • @dagny
    @nomopoetry Argh, please, no. Strunk & White is terrible. See, for instance, and
    http://t.co/GLQYqo3N
    2012/05/17 22:10
  • "Go inside a stone / That would be my way." #poem #poetry
    http://t.co/NNbXR1N3
    2012/05/17 20:25
  • "Writing while facing a wall, incidentally, seems to me the perfect metaphor for being a writer." - Francine Prose
    http://t.co/N42f866H
    2012/05/17 19:18
  • Read an old post: Poem: A Popular Website Puts up a Poll Asking if a Journalist is Responsible for Her Rape
    http://t.co/ogNVIbGz
    2012/05/17 14:12