Dean J. Baker - Poetry, prose poems, lyrics

Promises

deanjbaker — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:22:23 +0000

You know that what’s most often true goes unrecorded like the tune to this song the melody the stars make, as they wheel above the living and the dead: the answer you give in your pulse and footstep...

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At This Point In Time

deanjbaker — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:47:46 +0000

I don’t know what I will do, if anything; when so much pressure comes to bear, I guess I’ll have to be myself, whatever that means: these days when everything is bought and sold out again It didn’t...

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Crazy Cock

deanjbaker — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:38:09 +0000

Your argument on the angels’ side. What can I have to say, to one who believes in a coat of arms, no lover ever made. The Law you pass: unreal, upright and strong. ©Dean J. Baker Feel free to reblog...

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Slow Poem For Jane… excerpt from The Herald

deanjbaker — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:19:21 +0000

I don’t know if I want to kill you like the million other killers the city gives refuge to. I take on the shape of what is close. I am nothing in particular. To some I am a ghost. This is all my...

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Written On Water

deanjbaker — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 17:00:36 +0000

I wonder if Virginia Woolf walked first into dark waters while writing To The Lighthouse then returned to drop the pocketed stones, on the sand because the book required added light, and a certain...

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