Category Archives: Poetry

DETECTIVE POEM # 1

April 6, 2020 – 4:25 am

It’s Three in the morning And my client’s mistress hasn’t left The diplomat’s 65th Street townhouse. The blonde wisp entered at One. The upstairs lights were extinguished at One-fifteen. I stand in the alley. The night wind is a little cold. No complaints. My job is mostly to watch someone else’s life. Not a spy. […]

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WINTER’S TOLL – Montauk

April 1, 2020 – 1:38 am

WINTER’S TOLL The rails run straight to Montauk. The pine forest is wizened by the salt off the ocean Deer dash across the tracks. Day and night. The train runs once an hour. 3600 seconds apart. Still some deer don’t make it. Crows pick clean the bodies and the bones gleam white in the afternoon […]

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Hart Crane by Dakota Pollock

March 6, 2020 – 4:16 am

HART CRANE Harold Bloom is dead I don’t have to worry About his academic attacks On others with That sniveling, self assured Intellect His smug, all knowing, pretentious smirk Like the sailors Who threw Hart Crane From a ship After he made a pass At probably all of them And they threw him Into the […]

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Cast A Vote for Hope Wambui Ochieng

March 5, 2020 – 10:07 am

Please cast a vote for the young poetess Hope Wambui Ochieng from Kibera in the Little Ms Kenya Contest 2020 by going to this URL https://pageantvote.es/pageants/2375/contestants/13735 Asante

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28 W. 15th Street/A friendship With Somebody Else – by Dakota Pollock

October 13, 2019 – 8:34 pm

This summer I sold out and bought an a/c Artists were meant to suffer To transform their suffering Into understanding and hope By altering perspective For those who were unable To find it in themselves But now, I was no good. I was heat struck and heat warped Caught in a fire like ash dump […]

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