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Written by Kaija Alexandra Thom   
Wednesday, 02 January 2008
at cocktail hour she rides her bike
over the colourful chalk bodies of her
neighbor's children with dust shrieking
at the heels of her trainers she watches
with a blush to the west over mt. baker
perched upon a cement highland she'll
wait for the flicker of sodium lamps and
the dead heat of a setting sun, wishing

wishing a woman could warm her right 

Copyright 2008 Kaija Alexandra Thom
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Comments (6)
Posted by rock2003
2008-01-02 21:41:20
Good use of Time and Space

I like the way the reader is set up for something unexpected. That is important for good poetry: something contrary to cliche. I think this poem does it by breaking the cliche. We don't normally think of a grown woman riding a bike over a child's playing space. Super poem.
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Posted by dockyard
2008-01-03 17:23:12
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:)
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Posted by Zombie Punk
2008-08-07 11:12:56
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Well, that was cetainly not what I was expecting!

This was a really cool Poem. I really like the second and third line but then again every like was fantastic.

Great work!
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Posted by ams
2008-08-07 11:19:50
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i liked this, it was interesting. i liked the imagery portrayed in the first few lines, about the grown woman riding her bike. i also thought the format was interesting, although i had to read the poem a couple of times because of the lack of punctuation.
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Posted by dockyard
2008-08-07 16:18:58
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yes, the lack of punctuation is confusing for most people. but its supposed to all be one thought, and i feel like when i use periods it disrupts that. in this poem i rely heavily on linebreaks for pauses as opposed to the more conventional comma
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Posted by Pilgrim
2008-09-07 13:23:47
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Interesting.

Seems like flash poetry, but I could be wrong.

I got this one more than your others so far.

Pretty good.
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