Sample Poems by Michelle Stoner
Like Me
You're like me: amazed
when I don’t hate
science
fiction,
amazed by physics
and her chemical brain;
like me in small tightening skin,
flat some days,
ethereal depths and riots
others
sun turns me
and the name of adventure
exotic messages sent
along untapped wires
like me.
Cardinal
In my head it will be
Argentina. These two
loaded their guns,
gave her a raspy voice,
saw poems in the seams
which eradicated any tan
left over from the South
and then spent the night
speaking.
Untitled
You whistle,
you eat fruit,
you go West, you try.
Organ in a Billion Silences
How come, why not play –
there are a billion silences
on China,
here on earth – bring an organ
to the nighttime and run around
inconsequentially entirely and
for nothing.
Sleep on the ground for a year
of your life.
In Pennsylvania, June
One big sexy afternoon
lumps in the (I wish there were) heat
judging the flat
giving;
I take it back
It is amazing –
talk and the
barncats, days like
birds like layers
kind
of dizzy
some cyst on my neck,
drinking in the afternoons to
move on without moving.