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by P. L. Thomas

awareness (acrylic box)

awareness (acrylic box)

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awareness

2015, awareness (acrylic box)

Categories

  • 'Merica (Charles Manson is dead)
  • 2002
  • 2008
  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2013
  • 2014
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
  • 52 (hurtling)
  • 55 in third person: a space odyssey
  • 56: scarred broken & the new normal (it’s metaphorical)
  • a poem on being desired
  • a whole host of bafflements: the negligence of privilege
  • accidental monuments to their shame
  • acrylic (heartless)
  • afraid of ghost (v.)
  • ampersand
  • anniversary ceremonies (the things we cannot incinerate so we lie)
  • apologies come in retrospect
  • april fool
  • arid (alone together)
  • artifact of lost love
  • ascending (burned out)
  • awareness (acrylic box)
  • “it shouldn’t have to be this hard” (terroir)
  • because (infidelity)
  • being desirable
  • billboard
  • blacked out
  • broken (little private terrors)
  • bruises
  • calculating (the erased)
  • callipygian (silhouette)
  • channeling cummings and Dickinson at Christmas
  • child of my child (exponential love)
  • choice (Vote!)
  • chrysalis (i hold my words in awe)
  • claustrophobia
  • coccyx
  • Conversation 17 (equal parts unhappy and sad)
  • cowards & poets (untouched)
  • crow dream (time)
  • death bed (the silent spines of books)
  • debts between lovers
  • determined by blood (history and not her story)
  • do not fret however my dearest
  • drawing blood
  • dreams pull at me
  • English Journal
  • everything
  • everything (redux)
  • exit wounds
  • fall
  • fantasy & memory (you drew me into you)
  • fascism
  • filthy feet (next step)
  • first blueberries of the season
  • first spring (Baltimore is burning)
  • Fisherman and The Siren (vortex of desire)
  • forgiven (i wish)
  • Four Poems: For Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin
  • fragility (and then i realize)
  • fragments of a poet’s mind (they might be poems)
  • functioning (falling)
  • god
  • God: a prose poem
  • grammar Nazis (post-apostrophe literature)
  • heart surgeons astronauts & new lovers
  • hearts (on carpe diem and mortality)
  • holidays
  • hope
  • horea
  • Hunting Island SC (wilderness)
  • i do not come (everything)
  • i don’t belong here
  • i love a woman who swears
  • if
  • If Albert Camus
  • if god were a capitalist and created the world by playing Scrabble ®
  • imagination&recollection (i come to tell you everything)
  • impressions (hints of you)
  • incineration (black hole)
  • intimacy poem
  • just you (superhero jesus ®)
  • lamb of my heart
  • layers (stranger in my own dreams)
  • let's (lover's request)
  • light (the irretrievable allure of outdoors)
  • like two lower-case pronouns
  • listless (an upright life)
  • lives, eyes, & faces (these obligations)
  • lost years (seconds awake)
  • Mary (sea of bitterness)
  • Meditation 512: The you in the space we call awake
  • meet me at the bottom of the well (our seasons out of kilter)
  • mirrors (we are monsters)
  • my mother has returned to where she began
  • my vegan lover is a paradox
  • no one returns after leaving
  • nonsense (she will grow tired of all this)
  • now (kiss)
  • oasis (the weight of that stone)
  • obelisks (dreams & memories)
  • object permanence
  • on hangings and resurrections
  • on imprisonment and freedom
  • one time (weigh)
  • over full (overwhelmed)
  • party
  • past (father’s day)
  • quilting
  • quotidian
  • reading a biography
  • rewriting hansel & gretel (satiate)
  • rituals of love
  • rooms and spoons (i watch you with my fingertips and palm)
  • scars (when you talk)
  • secrets between my granddaughter and me (watch out world)
  • shaving
  • sins of a father (gods and kings and men of all kinds)
  • sorry (acrobat shapeshifter time traveller superhero)
  • survival is reductive
  • sweet dreams (she invited him in)
  • tangled in bed sheets
  • Tarame Chronicles
  • teleportation time travel & dreams (the empiricists have no clothes)
  • The 451 App (22 August 2022)
  • the anthropology of us
  • the archeology of white people
  • the consumers (crimes against the market)
  • the elasticity of love (window pane)
  • the geography of desire
  • the grammar of us (when i lie)
  • the inevitable weight of these gifts
  • the kindness school (beyond the archeology of white people pt. 2)
  • the masochisms of love (she would to him again)
  • the meaning of love (eviscerate)
  • the most often thing (nature is a force)
  • the mythology of weather
  • the philosophy of gerunds (my mother is dying)
  • the politics of lumber
  • the proximity of entrances and exits
  • the space where your voice should be
  • the sun was never at our fingertips
  • the things we mourn
  • the things we talk around when we talk about a broken heart
  • the water (we could die)
  • the world
  • then&now (rocket ship)
  • there are no seasons in dreams (but there is you)
  • these boxes (an antiquarian's Valentine’s Day card)
  • They killed Gwen Stacy in the film too
  • they ran (15 April 2013)
  • this noose of loving you
  • tidbits
  • Uncategorized
  • upon watching The Matrix 13 years late (Nerd Rules)
  • vertiginous (Notre-Dame cathedral is on fire)
  • war in the time of commas
  • water (only)
  • we (deserts)
  • we all fail (you coming new to us)
  • we rape the bees (because we can)
  • when i die
  • when you forget about me (i don’t want to be your ghost)
  • white folk (switchblade)
  • who needs a holiday in mexico
  • why is not a question (lacing)
  • will you
  • wings (dreams allow us to practice all we fear)
  • winter sunsets (driving away from you)
  • wonderland (Yen To Dollar pt. 2)
  • Yen To Dollar (notes on a gifted child as an adult)
  • you (dams break)
  • you (on being sheepless)
  • you (solstice)
  • you are a testament you are a test
  • you were there when they were wounds

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