Let me trim your shadow

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My tires swerve to avoid your blind spots, mirrors
tilted I tap two smokes up the yellow line.
"Can you count my fingers, baby? How about if
I hold them here?" The mission? Simple. This
is no return of the queen. This is a minor

glitch in your aqueous humor. No surgical precision,
no sweatneck apologies, no flowerbox reunions. Just this:
A jump between headlights. Did you miss
my shadow? Just this: A proud movie extra beams

onto the scene. She disappears through a steam-cloud
while the one-armed heroine takes the last train home.
Darling, don't you miss those spaces in between?

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vrosej10vrosej10about 13 years ago
Well written

Clever. Getting a recommend.

PoetGuyPoetGuyover 13 years ago
There is a lot of "drive" in this poem,

and that is always a good thing. There are a lot of images here. All, all good. But Poet Guy is damned if he can figure our what this poem is about, in some kind of normal sense.

He gives it a 4 for inventiveness of language. He might give it a 5 if SeattleRain could 'splain what the hell the poem's about.

He sure hopes that is helpful, in some cracked way.

He means, it's just a comment, after all. Comment.

Ah, hell.

UnderYourSpellUnderYourSpellover 13 years ago
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Well you certainly came back with a fireworks of a poem, absolutely well done my friend

LiarLiarover 13 years ago
Lots of visuals

It's - as always - a well balanced poem, and you mix allusions, references and imagery without overloading and driving it into the nearest pretentous ditch. In fact it's light as air to read. That takes a skilled pen.

Something right here

No surgical precision,

no sweatneck apologies, no flowerbox reunions. Just this:

A jump between headlights.

grabs my attention. More than the rest for some reason.

Really glad you're here to battle it out with us. Makes scaning the new poems list yet more fun.

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