Poetry Archives - Rick Baldwin

When I’m Gone

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When I’m gone, replace me with the moon— its silver dust more tempered, forgiving, steadfast and...

New Year

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Countdown ignored— tucked beneath a stranger’s quilt, like two-for-one toasted loaves from the...

Taking Flight

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I release them. Fledglings pushed from the nest, thin-skinned and chirping. Constantly on guard...

Arid

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Before the rains, I live in your skeleton, pressed beneath the crust of your sinister mask. I...

First Blush

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The flutter of waking— sapphire butterflies poised to sip the earth’s nectar, its sweetness...

Exotic Aquatic

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Inside, it swims— this goldfish of light within a translucent bowl, its fragile curve an illusion...

Barn

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Gray bones, defiant against the weather of a wavering century, stand proud, propping the relic— a...

Forever Burning Fire

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Life is a forever burning fire— its flames cradle you, a fleeting flicker. Briefly you dance,...

fence

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a wooden line of lovers like rotting fence posts each stake more weathered and hollow than the...

Jack o’Lantern

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When she carved the pumpkin, her hand sunk deep into its flesh and, as she scooped the insides,...

Jackson, 1962

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Murder at midnight. Ruby light like a sheet over the Oldsmobile’s steel green skin. Undercover...

Choices

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You never asked to give, nor I to take. These, our branded destinies— seared into us before our...

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