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Poems by John Grey
The Living and the Dead
It is a river that bears
drowning victims
as well as the souls
of Algonquin ancestors,
and its current
is endless liquid...
Poems by John Grey
Love Anyone?
There's a love that adopts
to this technological society
like a third hand
from fancy microwave ovens
to a ten-foot-tall refrigerator
with double freezer doors.
It can pull back...
Poems by John Grey
Among the Flowers
Here,
alight on my fingertip.
However,
fresh from its cocoon,
the black and gold butterfly
chooses the nearest flower
over the poet,
though a wing almost touches
as it...
Poems by John Grey
A Rose by its name only
This is it –
a rose,
not quite pink,
not quite yellow,
but both at once,
and red and white besides.
Awed by its beauty,
sniffing...
Poems by John Grey
2.00 A.M.
At 2.00 a.m.,
I lie awake
and listen to the night
while you sleep on beside me,
while trees in darkness
are embraced by a dream
many years old,
that...
Poems by John Grey
Tracking Down Clues
Your poetry has me scratching my head
and beyond.
Everything’s so random.
Like the words were spilled not written.
You must imagine yourself
a Jackson Pollock of...
Three Poems by John Grey
Emma's Interrupted Walk
Emma was out walking the dog when she saw them,
a girl and boy, surely still in their teens,
down behind the bushes by...
Poems by John Grey
Touch and Shine
Sinuous sun lowers like a bucket
into the well,
to rise again when earth’s turn
pulls the...
Poems by John Grey
We Risk Takers
It's snowing in the city.
I dig your car out
so you can risk your life
on pot-holed black-ice roads.
You're on your way
to making sure
you...
Three Poems – By John Grey
When They Drop Like Flies
Dies suddenly…the phone rings…
it’s this one or that one…somebody…
the diabetic, the guy with cancer,
add them to the list of...
