Category: poetry

• #011: Las Nubes/ The Clouds

  

  Today we saw Cloud’s bump Darken, ready for birth Each kick a roll of thunder Misery Alexander Beaumont-Arthur The Third Ready to roll out Del cielo a la tierra Lungs of lightning El grito de guerra And out poured life All over the green Out poured tears Adding to the pastoral scene Third generation out…

  leona allen

  May 17, 2021

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• #010: Day of Rest

  

  Sunday Funday Fauxhawk Sweet talk Three-horned unicorn Playing with some street chalk

  leona allen

  May 16, 2021

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• #009: Collection Plate

  

  A man Scratches Poesis onto a whiteboard In a suburban church. . Alcohol dripping from the marker. . Instead of listening to his lecture A woman sketches my profile Onto blue paper with kid craft black chalk. . She gives me a pointy nose. . I sit sizing up the schemas sculpted By the mouths…

  leona allen

  May 15, 2021

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• #008: The Alchemist (a Haiku Review)

  

  She sits by the well Hero seeks their destiny Assuming she’ll wait

  leona allen

  May 14, 2021

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  #100repchallenge, #alternativereading, #bythewell, #haiku, #haikureview, #poetry, #review, #thealchemist

• #007: To Build A Tongue

  

  This week I made a tongue out of digital ink Fibrillating muscle crafted by equally twitchy fingertips Fingertips that played staccato scales on non-musical keyboards Fingertips that scratched the skin off inedible apples Scoured juvenile journals made of trees and mystical code To make an abode out of ethereal brain pickings. . This week the…

  leona allen

  May 13, 2021

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