Alberta Poem (Fortis et Liber)

Oh, I love you AlbertaBig sky beautiful you, strong woman, ruff and soft soft-blue,I’m sitting right in the middle of miles of youHigh on my ponderosa ponySaddle smooth and sexy beneath me,I want to ride the range of your possibilityI’m Alberta bound baby; hear the silence of your immensityI want to touch the horizon of …

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Bridge Of Your Ghost

Today, I came to visit the bridge of your ghostlike a monument built over mortalityand the weeds and the flowersgrow below the solid line, like capsized dreams.And I came to the water’s edgewhere they left you face downin the mud,drowned and clubbed to death. When I was down therethe groundskeeper came by,to say a mother …

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Spinsters Hanging In Trees

From high in a treeover the hillnot so far from Spinstervilleperched on one kneeI pop the question: extraordinaryWill you marry me?Of courseIt will mean you have to compromiseHow can I compromise myself? At what age do you become, a spinster? We are the spinsters hanging in treeshanging in trees – at 45 degreeswe are the …

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Airplane Paula

O, Airplane Paula’s gotta lotta moveSlides outta her seat with a snakeskin smoothMaraschino mouth painted para-normalSome call her fast, but she’s noted for her slinkSilky saliva and conchy minkO Sweet Mama what a Ouija winkMake you sink like hellRuffles ring the breasts of a Stealth shell belleBlue jeans neatly torn and they’re trapeze-tightShe’s a 007 …

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