Tag Archives: Poetry

Twenty6

Posted on December 19, 2012 by stephenarcher

Twenty6 A to Z. All of them. The letters in my words drift away, unmoored, torn away, taken down, by a rip current. I have twenty6 to work in to something to say, but they, like me, are em ty. … Continue reading →

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Me & This Guy

Posted on August 23, 2012 by stephenarcher

Me and…and this guy Mountains, always, between us He gave up I left

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Goes Away

Posted on July 1, 2012 by stephenarcher

It’s moving away. I t i s . The time I thought I had, I had that time, but I don’t think of it that way when I want more… time, I mean. The time I have “used” … Continue reading →

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The Sky Ran Through Me

Posted on June 11, 2012 by stephenarcher

The sky ran through me: It did and I didn’t even know it. It did and it felt like the first orgasm I remember and it was that, in sky form. It did and I wouldn’t make this up, you … Continue reading →

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Can’t Make This Up

Posted on June 3, 2012 by stephenarcher

I am only telling you what I saw. Don’t ask me. I don’t know nothing. Couldn’t tell you…had nothing to do with it. This is exactly what happened: You have no idea what it’s been like here, Besides I just … Continue reading →

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Unlikely

Posted on May 21, 2012 by stephenarcher

Even against the backdrop of the world, life, you, I hold my own. I never knew that before.

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U n f o l d

Posted on May 16, 2012 by stephenarcher

It’s morning, nothing… the light shows up, perfect, low I open. to you

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The Place in Me

Posted on March 18, 2012 by stephenarcher

Quieter than the ending of the night when the graying of the black and the graying of the light meet and it’s dawn; quieter than the ending circuit of the tires on snow after the engine is cut and the … Continue reading →

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Shorebreak

Posted on February 10, 2012 by stephenarcher

I feel the wave gathering under me, my feet rising and the giddy feeling of it moving beyond me, as if a horse just ran through me and then the falling, the falling and my feet back on sand and … Continue reading →

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Eddy

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stephenarcher

What is a truth and a lie? A photograph is the lie sitting, like a spider in the web of the truth. What stays and what moves? A river does both and stops doing both at the same time. What … Continue reading →

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