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DHLawrence Pansies_10 Windows_Hirshfield

Posted onMarch 25, 2020March 25, 2020 By admindavid

THE WHITE HORSE

The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on
and the horse looks at him in silence.
They are so silent they are in another world.

D.H. Lawrence … Continue Reading >DHLawrence Pansies_10 Windows_Hirshfield

cross-line-contour_spotlight_unrepentant

Posted onMarch 24, 2020 By admindavid

haiku – cicadas

Posted onMarch 22, 2020March 22, 2020 By admindavid

cicadas singing
in a september downpour –
no rainouts for them … Continue Reading >haiku – cicadas

Oh, dear, dear, dear! Not another day like yesterday!

Posted onMarch 22, 2020 By admindavid

We put all our money in a 401k
but now we wonder if it will ever pay
the stock market fibrillates
while retirement waits
Oh, dear! Not another day like yesterday!
… Continue Reading >Oh, dear, dear, dear! Not another day like yesterday!

Evil is, i believe, the Absence of Empathy.

Posted onMarch 21, 2020 By admindavid

sapphic trauma # 24954
zu schlafen, vielleicht zu traumpt

I stop at the 1-lane low-water-crossing
to wait for another car, then another
then another, then another speeding up
to join the convoy
… Continue Reading >Evil is, i believe, the Absence of Empathy.

Sappho – Queen of Immediacy!

Posted onMarch 21, 2020 By admindavid

i have always prized ‘immediacy’ / ‘now-ness’
as a major component of poetic moments … Continue Reading >Sappho – Queen of Immediacy!

Because i have failed in the art of failure, Poems: I am successful

Posted onMarch 19, 2020 By admindavid

seeking immortality

Posted onMarch 18, 2020 By admindavid

seeking immortality
i googled
“how to download my self into my pc”
but
most of the results
concerned admin privileges … Continue Reading >seeking immortality

lubricants

Posted onMarch 17, 2020March 17, 2020 By admindavid

Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma, & Granfalloons, “In a Manner That Must Shame God Himself” Jon Stewart, Colbert, John Oliver, et al … Continue Readinglubricants

white rabbit fever

Posted onMarch 17, 2020 By admindavid

a metaphor for the human condition. … Continue Reading >white rabbit fever

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David E. Matthews

David E. Matthews is a failed poet based in Warwick, RI. Read more

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Books of Poetry

  • The Emily Dickinson Bee Towel Catalog
  • pffft! – a Poly-eFFable-Fungible Token Catalog
  • Fulsome Times
  • Max Nix
  • Opus In Progressu
  • American Bughouse / Left with Ludwig
  • Cantos Poesia
  • Traum von dem Gescheitert Dichter
  • beyond:
  • v1
  • Walk With Me
  • Back to Confucius
  • Better Late Than Never—Sez Who?
  • My S-Word: 1972 – 1999
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