Tag Archives: Free Verse

Crazy dreams

Posted on December 6, 2013 by T A Hillin-Smith

She’s the girl who stands alone in the crows of masses, and it’s those masses that call her a freak and crazy.  But what they don’t know is that she hates to go home, because they don’t know at home … Continue reading →

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Life at the Card Table

Posted on July 5, 2013 by T A Hillin-Smith

It’s hard to tell now what the hand holds. The House shows a pair of teacups, fomenting verdant highways. So braided clematis vows and trilled cotton diapers discarded. If only to draw straight bruised piano keys or royal pages, photos, … Continue reading →

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Poetry Defines It

Posted on July 3, 2013 by T A Hillin-Smith

distance 1. The extent of space between two objects or places; an intervening space. When we were one what was between us? 2. The fact or condition of being apart in space; remoteness. What permeated the skin from my soul to yours? … Continue reading →

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Footsoak in the Wellspring

Posted on April 23, 2013 by T A Hillin-Smith

Kōan day after earth day Wal-Mart discount plant Got a plant for your office? sliding shades of green, older, brittle brown dry leaves one diseased stem spouted a resilient last green stalk Why bamboo? small, black ceramic vase bedded in … Continue reading →

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One Toe in the Headwaters

Posted on April 16, 2013 by T A Hillin-Smith

Sioux dream brewed in great-great-grandmother’s refining teapot north arrow wise from the cup stained-glass butterfly lit on the petrified clock east arrow                                         … Continue reading →

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