house of cats

November 25, 2011

new blog

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link:

http://poetjungle.wordpress.com/

blogsome is closing down

May 16, 2011

hopeful monday

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scrubbing of the brain
scraping off of last week’s crap
fresh head for new week

klf

December 24, 2010

Christmas Eve Eve

Filed under: Poetry

they’re out of egg nog
no holiday drinks tonight
the hipsters are sad

klf

November 3, 2010

one scary night

Filed under: Poetry

off year election
they want their government back
tea bags in the sink

klf

May 24, 2010

funeral for a young man

Filed under: Poetry

tony
so many of those little black
dresses came to your funeral
i don’t think they’d known death
in this way before
i thought about
how many of those cocktail dresses
you must have pillaged
and i couldn’t remember
if it was three
or only two women
whom you’d gotten pregnant
within a few months —
of all the young men
driving their jeeps
through the nineties
you were the most
LIVE
rocking back and kicking
both feet against the constraints
of this world —
this priest has no conviction
in the dry gravel of his voice
and i have trouble
believing
that you’re folded in the great mother’s wings
until your father tells us
that he asked for a sign
and on the bridge
he found the laminated picture
of the saint who watches over departed souls —
tony
i can’t imagine
you in heaven
where all the spirits
are quiet and well-behaved
i don’t know
where someone who is two hundred
percent alive
goes
when they leave this place;
maybe you’re on your way back
right now
slipping inside the body forming
of a wild colt
getting ready to kick back up
onto your feet again

wendy shaffer






















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