What Thomas Wolfe Said…

“Stucco”
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“And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there.  

It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.”

Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again

 

I don’t exist here

not in dust

nor echoes

UR stucco heart jagged

gate fixed

Yet perdition leaks in

w/mourning doves’ censure

effacing refuge

 

 

Tweeted Monday, February 11, 2013 at 6:33 p.m. CST

Rituals: At Thanksgiving Day

Happy Forgiving Day

distant kin

eat hearts out

Sudden death play-offs

tackle tribe rivalries

siblings ledger scores

Discard all leftovers

 

 

Tweeted on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 11:07 p.m. CT

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First Born

Anointed

blue ribbon shrine

pristine shoes

Daddy toe waltzes

bedroom sanctum

car keys

genetic guilt

default executor

Last shovelful of dirt

 

Tweeted on Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. CT

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Premonitions

Sibyl spoke

Damned prophesy

Psychic volt

Days aflame

Dreams jolt

Omen,anecdote? 

Cajole eternity

Gift,Infamy?

Challenge blasphemy

Catastrophe!

Tweeted on Monday, August 27, 2012 at 6:20 pm CDT

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Adieu

A Road to Nowhere…

Line in sand

cross 2 foam kisses

Listen 2 gulls gossip

find anonymous messages in shells

Walk beach & sea fills steps

as if U never were

 

 

 

Tweeted (without photo) on Thursday, August 23 at 6:21 pm CDT

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Photo via Web

Whirlwind

Hurricane Ike slams 1900 Hurricane Memorial on Galveston Seawall

Wicked witch rides wind

passes, sheering branches

ghosts rustle atop roofs

ghouls howl thunder

cackle lightening

storm churns nite terrors

 

 

Tweeted (except photo) on Thursday, August 23, 2012  at 6:14 pm CDT

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Photo via Web

Storm Warnings

Street on Galveston Seawall – –
Day before Hurricane Ike struck
Courtesy Galveston Police Dept.

Rats & roaches flee rock jetty       

days B4 earth trembles

sea surges 2 sink human conceits

Child collects shells

mom soaks in melanoma’s rays

 

 

Tweeted (without photo): Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 6:11 pm CDT

Storm Warnings © 2012 by Audrey S. Rivers and Poetweetry

Photo courtesy Galveston Police Dept.

Scapegoat

Most innocent

We cast upon U

our locker room Christ

our smug sins

greed, envy, gossip

clique rituals

so we can worship God

in the mirror

 

 

Tweeted Wednesday, August 8, 2010 at  5:12 p.m. CDT

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Reunion

Spare me banalities

of bald jocks,

prom queen’s cancer

rich geeks, suicides

All & nothing mends

Old photos con

My name tag reads Anonymous

Tweeted on July 29, 2010 at 5:34 p.m.

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Bequest

Built UR kitsch dream house

No one allowed on gold carpet

kids & pets confined 2 cellar

30yrs later in hospice

alone in shag carpet reverie

Tweeted on July 12, 2010 at 2:19 a.m.

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