Sting Ray Jonson

Haul. Poetry

[Sting Ray Jonson @Ray__Haul]

Haul

Loads
Tolls?
Yellow
Lines?
Designs
Change?
Time
Mind?
Find
Fine?

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Done For

I think
I am
Done for

Awhile

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Without Being Seen

Blue-eyed ponds
Shy to enter
The night sky
Reflect—
Silence echoes
Underneath—

A transmission
Is nothing
Without being seen—
Stars fade while
Meaning sets like
Concrete—

Near the center
Of earth—
Below paved streets—
There is a listening—
A craving to
Complete—

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Aubade

The whipping
Wind—

The patter of
Rain—

The incandescent
Lamp

Next to our
Bed

Is as cold as
Everything

Beyond our
Skin

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Unusual Stipulations

1. No swearing
2. No objections
3. No area of inquiry is improper
4. No record

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Pull it Off

A season
Of wonder

Arrives—
Colors

Pulling
Off

Winter’s
Cover

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But Don’t

Throw some dirt—
Bury me—
But don’t forget
My needs

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Surface Tension

Picture
Two

Drops
On your

Dinner
Plate—

Each
Having

Its own
Well

Defined
Place—

Now
Imagine

What it
Takes

To merge
Into

One
State

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Pivots

Will her
Rotational

Boundary
Extend

To lush
Lands

Waiting
To begin—

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Concrete

We know how
Water behaves—

How water flows
Downstream—

How water heated
Disappears as steam—

How water cracks
Concrete as it freezes—

But you, me and the guy
Down the street

Can't learn
How to be

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Don't Give Up

Get back on the pony
And find an all night
Convenience store

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Holy Cow!

We are here—
Now—

But how?

How now brown cow—
How now brown cow—

How is it we are
Here now?

How now brown cow—
How now brown cow—

We are

Here

Somehow

How now brown cow—
How now brown cow—

We are

Here
Somehow

Oh ... yeah ...

We are

Here

Somehow (put some tail on it)
(repeat and fade)

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Mnemosyne

I often
Visit

Days

Which she
Was

Kind

To
Give

To me

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Molotov Cocktails

Fire bolts from
Here to there—

Unavoidable
When the right

Conditions—
Disappear

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My Daughter Disappeared

My daughter disappeared
And so did my son—
I arrived to see
What could be done

Hmm .... I thought
Isn't this strange—
Whatever effort I make
Seems to be in vain

So I am I
And that is I
No matter how divided
I must get by

Hmm … I thought
What does this mean?
Because we all appear and
Retreat from the scene

So where did they go?
And could I find them there?
Or can I only wait
For them to come near?

Well ... I cooked the meal
That I had bought—
Lamb chops and rice
Without any sauce

And then they came by—
Yes, they were no longer lost—
Like birds they swooped in
Grabbed the worms and

flew off!

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A Way

Away?

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A Way

I
Walk

Away
To

A spot
Where

I lift
A rock—

Under
Which

There is
Nothing

To be

For-
Got

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Home

Wet streets—
Scattered leaves—

Street lights—
Summer leaves—

A breeze
Of 72 degrees

As she
Comes out-

side to sit
With me