Submissions by rayheinrich (Death Plane for Teddy)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Two of the cats i live with piss in my shoes. My wife either doesn't, or her piss smells like the second cat's.
LOVE POEM
Published
14th Aug 2012 12:09pm
14th Aug 2012 12:09pm
< the blessings of night >
dreaming of home towns
near warm coasts
where they used to drill for oil
and it seems to be late morning
and i'm waiting at a railroad crossing
while a switch engine makes up its mind
just where to put some tank cars
and the window is open
cause the air conditioner is broken
and i stare at a few flowers
small
yellow
just weeds on the roadside
and it's a little hot
but it's not too bad
and you're sitting next to me
on the bench seat of my old pickup truck
and...
near warm coasts
where they used to drill for oil
and it seems to be late morning
and i'm waiting at a railroad crossing
while a switch engine makes up its mind
just where to put some tank cars
and the window is open
cause the air conditioner is broken
and i stare at a few flowers
small
yellow
just weeds on the roadside
and it's a little hot
but it's not too bad
and you're sitting next to me
on the bench seat of my old pickup truck
and...
810 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
11th Aug 2012 10:59pm
11th Aug 2012 10:59pm
< gray >
the world outside is real
and can be described
in those terms
but
we live in here
inside
in the landscape
of where
our life is a story
where magic is real
and
available
and a single word
can make
you
or you can vanish
a key
pressed
in the late afternoon
can leave you
gone
...
and can be described
in those terms
but
we live in here
inside
in the landscape
of where
our life is a story
where magic is real
and
available
and a single word
can make
you
or you can vanish
a key
pressed
in the late afternoon
can leave you
gone
...
1163 reads
13 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
11th Aug 2012 5:08am
11th Aug 2012 5:08am
< seven years later >
water
lily
yellow blossom
bright in sun
just
one
pressed from water
mirrored frog
(imagined)
mouth wide waiting
lily
yellow blossom
bright in sun
just
one
pressed from water
mirrored frog
(imagined)
mouth wide waiting
919 reads
3 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
10th Aug 2012 10:12am
10th Aug 2012 10:12am
< my goddess of the crossroads >
Painting:
'Hecate Or The Three Fates'
William Blake, 1795
"Images of Hecate in her trimorphic
form were placed at crossroads."
http://tinyurl.com/Goddess-of-Crossroads
< my goddess of the crossroads >
a rainy night
at the crossroads
pieces of a rainy night
down at the crossroads
a wet night
of wet gravel
and wet asphalt
down at the crossroads
down here looking
for a message
a sign
and the...
'Hecate Or The Three Fates'
William Blake, 1795
"Images of Hecate in her trimorphic
form were placed at crossroads."
http://tinyurl.com/Goddess-of-Crossroads
< my goddess of the crossroads >
a rainy night
at the crossroads
pieces of a rainy night
down at the crossroads
a wet night
of wet gravel
and wet asphalt
down at the crossroads
down here looking
for a message
a sign
and the...
1018 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Aug 2012 11:01pm
6th Aug 2012 11:01pm
< the paper wasps >
build their nest out
from the white boards under
the eaves of my mom's house
that will be mine someday
and i see them each day since
they're by the kitchen door
every day
as i take out the trash
as i walk the dog
as i let in the cats
as i let out the cats
as i let them in again
and me as well and
my neighbors and
friends and
people who would
sell me god and
all the rest of the...
from the white boards under
the eaves of my mom's house
that will be mine someday
and i see them each day since
they're by the kitchen door
every day
as i take out the trash
as i walk the dog
as i let in the cats
as i let out the cats
as i let them in again
and me as well and
my neighbors and
friends and
people who would
sell me god and
all the rest of the...
927 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Aug 2012 12:31pm
4th Aug 2012 12:31pm
< a wonderful life >
Solid iron primitive steel
before they got to you
so refined
you
your face
you using it as a brush, a pencil
a stuttering picture
a movie manipulated freeze frame
solid iron
never a thought of fragile
before you broke
or me or it or they
NOT fragile
you
you standing there
NEVER fragile
just a few moments before this
a solid iron primitive steel
before they got to you
so refined there
you
your face
you using it as a...
before they got to you
so refined
you
your face
you using it as a brush, a pencil
a stuttering picture
a movie manipulated freeze frame
solid iron
never a thought of fragile
before you broke
or me or it or they
NOT fragile
you
you standing there
NEVER fragile
just a few moments before this
a solid iron primitive steel
before they got to you
so refined there
you
your face
you using it as a...
1272 reads
9 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Aug 2012 12:55pm
3rd Aug 2012 12:55pm
< salvation >
a strange flu in late july
makes fevers and coughs and sore joints
seem appropriate
seem a great excuse
to not answer
what couldn't be answered anyway
to lie down
to sleep
(between coughs)
to think of what sits between
life
and everything else
and my cough syrup
is as red as communion wine
and my sacrament
is the next pill
until
the door opens
and it's you
and vanilla wafers
and bananas
and pudding
- - -
makes fevers and coughs and sore joints
seem appropriate
seem a great excuse
to not answer
what couldn't be answered anyway
to lie down
to sleep
(between coughs)
to think of what sits between
life
and everything else
and my cough syrup
is as red as communion wine
and my sacrament
is the next pill
until
the door opens
and it's you
and vanilla wafers
and bananas
and pudding
- - -
960 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Jul 2012 2:25am
29th Jul 2012 2:25am
< Lament >
DEMETRIUS:
How now, dear sovereign, and our gracious mother!
Why doth your highness look so pale and wan?
TAMORA:
Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?
These two have 'ticed me hither to this place:
A barren detested vale, you see it is;
The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean,
O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe:
Here never shines the sun; here nothing breeds, ...
How now, dear sovereign, and our gracious mother!
Why doth your highness look so pale and wan?
TAMORA:
Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?
These two have 'ticed me hither to this place:
A barren detested vale, you see it is;
The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean,
O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe:
Here never shines the sun; here nothing breeds, ...
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3 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
28th Jul 2012 1:53pm
28th Jul 2012 1:53pm
< rainy spring day >
a dripping of a drop
as a flower tips its top
and the forest
in deep shadow
and the birds
birding
and the squirrels
using their tails as umbrellas
and it's cool
and no breeze
and my breath
turns mist then melts away
a red mushroom
poisonous
i eat it anyway
and feel its flesh
crush between my teeth
and feel its inside
mix with mine
and five miles down the trail
a first tingle ...
as a flower tips its top
and the forest
in deep shadow
and the birds
birding
and the squirrels
using their tails as umbrellas
and it's cool
and no breeze
and my breath
turns mist then melts away
a red mushroom
poisonous
i eat it anyway
and feel its flesh
crush between my teeth
and feel its inside
mix with mine
and five miles down the trail
a first tingle ...
893 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
27th Jul 2012 12:13pm
27th Jul 2012 12:13pm
< years of water >
i dream
of water
and the seals
barking
on the rocks
and i dream
of a deep lake
of navigating
the shores
of the lap and pound
of years of water
of willow strands
growing in a hidden path
of dark waves eating
through wet years
of escaping
and searching
...
of water
and the seals
barking
on the rocks
and i dream
of a deep lake
of navigating
the shores
of the lap and pound
of years of water
of willow strands
growing in a hidden path
of dark waves eating
through wet years
of escaping
and searching
...
804 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Jul 2012 1:41pm
23rd Jul 2012 1:41pm
< poison >
the point of poison
is to speed up life
with a really good poison
you can go through
a whole life
in seconds
my sister and i
learned how to make poison
we made it each time
mother and father
fought
but our poison
wasn't that good
it took years
- - -
...
is to speed up life
with a really good poison
you can go through
a whole life
in seconds
my sister and i
learned how to make poison
we made it each time
mother and father
fought
but our poison
wasn't that good
it took years
- - -
...
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12 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Jul 2012 10:01pm
22nd Jul 2012 10:01pm
< ALL this and more >
I knew it was coming together
the day my ammo qualified for
Amazon free super-saver shipping
and
(for only $2 more)
I sent myself a gift card
and had it say:
"All this and more"
it keeps saying
"All this and more"
but
I tell it
you're a play-soldier rifle
just an AR-15
pretty dinky
kinda do-it-yourself
you know
if I was a REAL AMERICAN
I'd wait
take my time
make me a drone
- - -
the day my ammo qualified for
Amazon free super-saver shipping
and
(for only $2 more)
I sent myself a gift card
and had it say:
"All this and more"
it keeps saying
"All this and more"
but
I tell it
you're a play-soldier rifle
just an AR-15
pretty dinky
kinda do-it-yourself
you know
if I was a REAL AMERICAN
I'd wait
take my time
make me a drone
- - -
831 reads
8 Comments
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