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• Liar’s Poker - by William Teets  I want to nail her lies to her forehead,play a true game of liar’s pokerOr maybe wrap my coat around her shoulderswhile snow-ice meltsand trickles away like fizzled-out fireworksBefore stone tears eclipse the sun and moonand our eyes are opened,before we see each other for the first timein… {more}
  
  
• Rebar and Concrete - by William Teets On slow boring days, you’d randomly yell,Let’s go drown a fisherman, catch a minotaur by its hornsYour words promised a peek into the bearded lady’s tent,exposed who hid behind that mysterious fabled curtainI always followed alongExpected to find the goose and her laid golden eggs,stumble up a beanstalk… {more}
  
  
• Stone and Bone - by William Teets Fear outlasts faithI tell her my truth from behind a Revolutionary tombstoneShe sketches awayBrings a forgotten life back to the livingDry leaves and fallen sticks crack below my feetDead bone tooI sit on stonePull rusty words of Eliot from my sackShe sketches awayDo I dare, do I… {more}
  
  
• Who’s Valid Now - by William Teets I don’t love her; I love the thought of her.Afterwards,an old friend sells me bitter root of old age.Grace saves the Madonna,who will save us?Byron and Shelley leave West Texas.Botticelli paints orbs.Jesus and Johnny Cash run butter and booze on a rumrunner through delta swamps.I am on… {more}
  
  
• Winter Rain - by William Teets Before I left for goodshe asked if we could embraceWanted to know why memories are mental and physicaland why both hurt so badIf I remembered our first kiss on West Fourth Streetin front of Jack the Ripper’s Publ told her I didn’t but remember kissing Sallyon the eighth-grade… {more}
  
  

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