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Parallel
A Poetry Collection by TashInTheClouds
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Belle View
Belle View
A reflection waits for a kiss, leaning in for the goddess’ blessing — a loitered secret or perhaps, more bourbon.
TashInTheClouds
Jun 25
The Time For Being
The Time For Being
I can be an acquired embellishment — a pagan pet, fit for dancing.
TashInTheClouds
Apr 28
Threads
Threads
A thread pulls, to unravel a dressing, and somewhere beneath the filaments: a carnival of skin.
TashInTheClouds
Apr 28
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Reciting poems about a life that feels unadorned, a resilient beast — a dumbwaiter of sorts
TashInTheClouds
Apr 27
Spin It Out
Spin It Out
Spit in palm and, make a deal, to grasp a contract with a worn-down wheel.
TashInTheClouds
Apr 27
Provenance
Provenance
Provenance is a trick, a tailor-made tale for the tourist that flock, to gawk at my vacillations.
TashInTheClouds
Apr 27
Poetry
Poetry
The dead whisper homilies, falsities, word upon word,
TashInTheClouds
Mar 2, 2021
Frame
Frame
Observe this, a tableau unbalanced, uncoveted, like a bruise.
TashInTheClouds
Feb 27, 2021
Love Is Something
Love Is Something
Love is that eventual thing that’s oft defined by numbers —
TashInTheClouds
Dec 27, 2020
The Joke
The Joke
Satire flatters, by omission - brightens, like a winter sunrise, without feeling the frost below.
TashInTheClouds
Nov 23, 2020
The 13th Room
The 13th Room
Another night, another room with a new car outside, cooling, familiar body, inside glistening, tiring.
TashInTheClouds
Nov 19, 2020
Foundations Ripple
Foundations Ripple
I remembered the decathexis in our conversations, the fine sensual numbness when I was neither human nor beast, though I was good as one…
TashInTheClouds
Nov 7, 2020
The Truthful Light
The Truthful Light
Light, like the darkness can hurt unbearably, like strangers.
TashInTheClouds
Oct 28, 2020
Encompass
Encompass
I will move when you move, locked in and jointed
TashInTheClouds
Sep 22, 2020
Lovely
Lovely
Oh, she has a lovely face, and a wisp of a lilt, when she feels like conversing on our sometimes Sunday mornings.
TashInTheClouds
Jul 8, 2020
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