Write No Cliches ... Pull No Punches ... And Keep Going All Night

Wendy Grimsley's Writing for December 2008

Writing

cipher down

i could hide what's in my mind
in clever lines and disguise it in a rhyme scheme
or choose to dream new definitions of rhythm
that defy your critical geometry

i could place my methods above my madness
talk about how sad this is and then draw you a picture
to reflect it two dimensionally

i could mention just in passing how i've outlasted
catastrophe after catastrophe and watch you atrophy
under the weight of apathy

i could anoint pages wit…

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Posted by Wendy Grimsley on December 23rd, 2008 at 12:57am — No Comments

a man's house

this castle is an hourglass
with beaches seeping under the doors
clever particles camouflaged in the ceramic grid

and the sons of the fathers bear the sins of their fathers
and track the plague on the bottoms of old shoes
because if there is only one new pair a year
they might as well be inhabited

something so simple as shoes need to have a reason
but they walk in the yard with no feet and hide like
we need games to play so near death

there…

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Posted by Wendy Grimsley on December 12th, 2008 at 12:59am — No Comments

couplets for an insatiable addiction

i always wake in someone elses bad childhood
it takes at least twenty years to find an eraser

i wish the world would push forward
instead of living the same day over and over

there's always one email i forget to delete
that makes me feel like i'm not missing out until i open it

there's always one early morning disappointment
it takes at least fifteen years to find a chaser

i'm always guilty by association
when i want to watch you marvel at…

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Posted by Wendy Grimsley on December 7th, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments