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Trapped Inside a Song or Short Story

Arambler wrote 6 days ago: In a dream not that long ago, he celebrated a rare moment being anonymous by sitting next to me— clo … more →

Tags: Morning Poems, Night poems, Autobiographical, Creation, Poetry

Minnesota Spring Breaks

Arambler wrote 1 week ago: This is finally it— tiny green buds begin to break along most tree branches. So poised. … more →

Tags: Afternoon Poems, Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems, Day Poems, Morning Poems, Night poems, 2013 spring, Cinquain, May, northern spring

May Day

Arambler wrote 2 weeks ago: Fuel leaks out all over the tarmac beneath the left wing. Sandbags. Fire trucks. Another night in Au … more →

Tags: Night poems, Austin, TX, Minneapolis, Poetry

Eight Months

Arambler wrote 3 weeks ago: While dreaming, our number transforms into a symbol that gives permission to go on forever. One spra … more →

Tags: Day Poems, Night poems, Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems, Afternoon Poems, Morning Poems, Poetry, Father, Love, Memory

Flash Memoir

Arambler wrote 3 weeks ago: “Anonymity is priceless.” —Jay Farrar, Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs At the half century mark, debr … more →

Tags: Night poems, Poetry, Lyric, impressionist, imagist, Economy

Fake Book

Arambler wrote 3 weeks ago: Rumors of notes divided up—a settlement made behind closed trap doors. Illegal bindings can lead to … more →

Tags: Morning Poems, Poetry, Regrets, Gossip, Separation, till the day you die

Another One for the First City I Loved

Arambler wrote 1 month ago: Swan boats Arthur Fiedler Logan Sumner Tunnel The Phoenix Newbury Comics Fenway … more →

Tags: Day Poems, Night poems, Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems, Afternoon Poems, Morning Poems, Poetry, Boston

Cold Water (April 14)

Arambler wrote 1 month ago: Maiden. She sank 101 years ago today, or had started to sink. My father taught me how to swim in a b … more →

Tags: Poetry, Atlantic Ocean, ships, Titanic

Twisted Anniversary

Arambler wrote 1 month ago: Twenty years ago when she thought she would live forever, she tried to cut it short. Twenty years la … more →

Tags: Day Poems, Night poems, Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems, Morning Poems, Poetry

Is It Mine Again?

Arambler wrote 1 month ago: Dumptruck sings “Get off my island.” Used to be my refrain even though I’ve always known no one (esp … more →

Tags: Night poems, Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems, Poetry, connecticut, Martha's Vineyard, Wesleyan, Brooklyn, dumptruck, NYC

Now She's Done It3 comments

Arambler wrote 1 month ago: “I wish I could speak sky.” —Richard Hell (“Boy Meets Death, Boy Falls in Love” in Hot and Cold) And … more →

Tags: Night poems, Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems, Poetry

Wise Disguise

Arambler wrote 1 month ago: The way a punk unravels slowly, then zap—nothing left save the recovered voice of a city transient. … more →

Tags: Night poems, Poetry, memoir, aging, Maturity, cardinal

Third Person Polyphonic

Arambler wrote 1 month ago: Narratives flood the garden of sound. Why does rocking a cradle calm them—shake trebling from all th … more →

Tags: Night poems, Poetry, mute, 21st-century narrative

DNR—Or Do

Arambler wrote 1 month ago: I can almost taste the snow—nothing good ever comes from that. A late March double espresso might ne … more →

Tags: Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems, Poetry, Father, connecticut, Atlantic Ocean, Grief, reunion, Memorial

O, Brother, Where Art Thou?

Arambler wrote 3 months ago: No one walks this way forever. No one waits for the call without some skin crawling in the dark. No … more →

Tags: Day Poems, Night poems, Poetry, Addiction, Homer, itinérant, peripatetic

Speech Therapist for the Angels4 comments

Arambler wrote 4 months ago: For Sheri As we recall her in unison, I believe I can hear her mocking herself for the way she said … more →

Tags: Day Poems, Night poems, Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems, Afternoon Poems, Morning Poems, Poetry, sheri

Water Dancer3 comments

Arambler wrote 4 months ago: for Sheri She knows every inch of the dock, every splinter, barnacle, hurricane seam. It is not a pl … more →

Tags: Day Poems, Night poems, Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems, Afternoon Poems, Morning Poems, Poetry, sheri

Would Have Been

Arambler wrote 4 months ago: Your 36th sober birthday if you had lived. I remember when you told me you put down the bottle. I di … more →

Tags: Day Poems, Night poems, Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems, Afternoon Poems, Morning Poems, Poetry, Father, Love, death

Two Years Smoke Free (Or, David Bowie's Birthday)

Arambler wrote 4 months ago: Wild winter wishes rumble through weeds. A plain for practicing freedom cartwheels. Late afternoon f … more →

Tags: Day Poems, Night poems, Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems, Afternoon Poems, Morning Poems, Poetry, Addiction, Quit Smoking, David Bowie


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