Poems by Nick Flynn
Alan Dugan Telling Me I Have A Problem With Time
... With the old monarchs gone (I took this line as the title) ...
Bag Of Mice
... The mice, huddled at the bottom, scurried the bag ...
Amber
... ong to please it, licking the walls, a chamber built of scent, a moment followed by a lesser moment ...
Emptying Town
... is someone ripping open his shirt and saying, Look what I did for you ...
You Asked How (formerly Even Now She Is Turning, Saying Everything I Always Wanted Her to Say)
... on the couch. Cars slowly fill the windows, and I aim, ...
Cartoon Physics, Part 1
... bly pushing into the vacuum, galaxiesswallowed by galaxies, wholesolar systems collapsing, all of it ...
Embrace Noir
... les, Sinatra's band punches the air with horns, Ilean forward, into the screen, they are eye-to-eye, ...
Twenty-Pound Stone
... It never bleeds, it never heals, it is a soup can left on the back shelf, ...
Statuary
... what was staring out, its airless sleep, the mouse we built ...
jesus knew
... d come back like us he said this every time he left but jesus ...
fire
... t know why she pushed me out, this cold-cold furnace, we all ...
self-exam (my body is a cage)
... that spot as if you have an itch, close your eyes & ...
