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Poetry

An updated-as-they’re-published compendium of Mike’s poetry.

yard sale

April 26, 2013

your wife sold me your toolbox aged Craftsman three-drawer classic perfectly dented and rusty heavy with assorted tools   she […] [continue…]

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displaced

April 26, 2013

running with a group, I am a misfit my face is fierce turning away greetings with its chill feet padding […] [continue…]

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lesson

April 26, 2013

sometimes when I speak I hear my father’s voice especially when I’m at Sears grumping a labyrinthine course from department […] [continue…]

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preemptive

April 21, 2013

your best friends are not the fair-weather kind who party when the check comes in but also not the people […] [continue…]

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wonder

April 20, 2013

sometimes late at night I hear the footsteps across the attic floor greet her at the stairs watch her walk […] [continue…]

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perspective

January 23, 2013

it is a gray day in the ATL which is another way to say that from twenty thousand feet it […] [continue…]

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shift

May 30, 2012

it is hard to think about theodicy –about that great mystery of a good God in a world of pain– […] [continue…]

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85 bucks

May 9, 2012

There are many things to celebrate about finally finding a used Weber smoker on the Craigslist: the uncertainty the thrill […] [continue…]

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in April

May 1, 2012

poems are like the wildflowers that grow in the front lawn voluntary, uninvited popping up unexpectedly intrusions into an otherwise […] [continue…]

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