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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Do the Limbo
He loved her for her beauty.
She loved him for the cars, the furs
The jewelry, and the address.
Together they made a
Spectacularly
Shallow couple.
The perfect husband and wife team
To anchor the news
On Channel 7.
(Previously published in Cotworld, March 2001)
Laurence Overmire
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Doctor In Spite of Himself
Pen in hand
I am the doctor
Standing in the delivery room
Ever so gently taking the head of
The emerging poem
Not quite sure what I will see
As this new being
Takes form
And marveling at the strength of
The brow
The eye, the nose, the swell of the lip
A word in the breath
The finger and toe of each
Impossible sentence
Making a miracle of the
Expectant world.
(Previously published in Words-Myth, Issue #6, Spring 2007)
Laurence Overmire
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Doff (senryu)
Uncloak the mystery
remove the trappings of grief
what is has ever been
Laurence Overmire
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Doing Laundry
To be a serious poet
Is to continually face
The battering hand of rejection
No value placed on
Words and guts spilled
In ceremony
Onlookers indifferent to the slaughter
Toothpicks fingered between molar and gum
A burp to signal satisfaction
In dark rooms, feet propped up
Life sinks into the crevices between
Cushions
Voices from nowhere tumbling through a
Rinse cycle, drowning out
The silence.
(Previously published in Illogical Muse, Summer Issue 2007)
Laurence Overmire
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