Adolescence
Not long after the boy became a man Did he first pluck his first guitar. He strummed The instrument like milk on honey, jam On toast, a cigarette that’s tinged […]
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Adjudge
His carbine, cordite smoking, plays again. TV, radio, internet and mouth Carry his deeds and our laments. How wicked This wind blows. How far must our blame travel Before it […]
Adieu
The dust driven sheets, wind whipped caravel Of the dreams you’ve taken and fled pellmell Bed in the sand, pillow left in the dunes Askew and behind like planets and […]
Accomplice
Believe in this, my accomplice, For crime do we commit of consequence, We know no music but the serpent’s hiss, No lustre, lust or craving not monstrous. We must to […]
Accommodate
Assured, apart from crowded pier, she stepped. While jacktars jeered in Macy‘s swinging rigs, I breathed. Then lay my mop beside the mast. What frightful creature beckons, I thought, and […]
Pierce Nahigyan 