Category Archives: Poems by Melony

one haiku in the palm three lines print, print, print

26th
Nov. × ’09

one haiku
    in the palm -- three lines
print, print, print

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procession against the moonlight wisps of cloud

2nd
Nov. × ’09

procession
   against the moonlight
wisps of cloud

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siren wail the disquiet passing lights festive

21st
Oct. × ’09

siren wail
the disquiet passing
lights festive

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indistinct shushing, leaves scatter boughs bending

14th
Oct. × ’09

indistinct
    shushing, leaves scatter
boughs bending

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Mile Zero

5th
Oct. × ’09
AC/DC blasting we drive
a stolen car for the reservation
legal bottle rockets
but at every stop find
shops closed for Sunday's rest

Despite this we drive on
through the dry New Mexico
spring slumped in the wide back
seat while stunted evergreens sweep
back into the sand-colored
scenery until at MILE
0 we turn back

No one else notices
that green marker
among the weeds
nor would they care

One highway
opens; the other
disappears
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winter down smoothed and unfolded to air

30th
Sep. × ’09
winter down
smoothed and unfolded
    to air
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Allegory of the Wasp

25th
Sep. × ’09
Beyond the window shade, shadows
        shift, shapes bend

Sting, antennae, wing veins, twitching
        abdomen

I try to decide on which side
        the wasp crawls

Its silhouette slips as it flips
        through a hole

On the screen
    the wasp draws itself
        awkward lines
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string weathered silver tone clattered cylinders

22nd
Sep. × ’09
string weathered
silver tone clattered
    cylinders
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a palm strand yellowing, untwisted cattail lines

9th
Sep. × ’09
a palm strand
    yellowing, untwisted
        cattail lines
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brick lay flat brighter and torn from under

30th
Aug. × ’09
brick lay flat
brighter and torn
    from under
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