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msmarkonis
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Poet, oil painter/graphic artist, and independent research in politics, social science, science/medicine, economics/finance.

  January 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 11 total

"[Around me now,]"

Around me now,
caked paraffin oil,
on a tin field helmet.

I have gone searching
for war at...

by Matthew Sean Markonis

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Fragment

I live in a world of mildness.
The wind evokes nothing, crossed-out as it dies down in ink.
Evocations of the nothing...

by Matthew Sean Markonis

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"[The gold road was swept]"

The gold road was swept
with a longing look
from the Holy book
that the angels keep.

You must be what God
sees in His...

by Matthew Sean Markonis

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XXI

Thought. Remembrance.
Cancer research.
Sacked territory
Of the white, flying...

by Matthew Sean Markonis

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The Removal

All forfeits. Nothing ceases,
But it's pinstriped elbow drops,
Curious of strange diseases.

. . .

The door without access—
Its key without teeth...
Innumerably sighing.

. . .

Peace. A deposit. A held word.
I have seen you before,
...

by Matthew Sean Markonis

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9/10 and I knew the Elizabeth Bishop one too! Damn!

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