your listening is for me
a gift, a lift — at last,
the fourteenth floor
photo by Simon Law cc by-sa 2.0: “an old strip mall about to be torn down”
haiku by rachel mcalpine cc by 2.0
relationships
Don’t be
Don’t be too hard
on your ex,
who was frequently
faithful to you.
Shoulder
He’s a shoulder.
Should this, should that,
should her.
Cold shoulder.
That showed her.
He should should should
offer a shoulder
and murmur
‘How do you feel?’
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Rachel McAlpine
Comfort noise
After you hang up
your obsolete handpiece
after you go,
comfort noise
swells through the holes.
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Rachel McAlpine
So brave
Do not fear
to be sincere.
Do not give
the shove to love.
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Rachel McAlpine
In khaki
Your eyes are in khaki.
Are you at war
or on safari?
I would hate to be a pet
but I am scared
of dying.
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Rachel McAlpine
Poems in the wild—Rachel McAlpine 