Sunday Morning
I linger over my cereal,
Newsprint on my fingers, printer’s
ink
From photo faces of skin
and bone,
Grey children on our Times’
front page
That I used to wrap the
garbage in;
At the sink I wash my bowl
and hands
And leave for church.
Daniel E. Wilcox
Published in The Other Side Magazine
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Sitting Drunk
There in the urban lagoon
You are a sitting drunk
Gabbled to the bar
Waiting for the sotted-shot
To blast
Through your flapped brain
One more mallard
For the boat tender
Daniel E. Wilcox
Published in Word Riot
August 2007
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The Feeling of Natural Selection
We saw the cow with the afterbirth
hang
ing
from
her
under
side
we searched the pasture
until we found on the selected ground
the small sack
with the calf—
still
born
for
never
Daniel E. Wilcox
Published in Word Riot
August 2007
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haiku
trembled, jittering
feather caught to the dust splat
on the Chevy windshield
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horse trailer rattles
by curved eucalyptus
leaves
that skit in the gutter
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rain water on oil
red and blue swirls on blacktop--
a peacock's feather
Daniel E. Wilcox
Published in The Stylus
Spring 2007
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warped fence boards in sand
lean askew toward green windbreak --
old gnarled cypress
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lines, no white shirts but
birds black in a row clothes-pinned
to the telephone wires
Daniel E. Wilcox
Published in Idlewheel
Fall 2007
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The Wearing
My worn bible
Its edges torn
And cover faded
And pages loose
Slipping sideways
out
My worn soul
Its cover shorn
And edges fleeced
And prayers'
refuse
A losing downways
doubt
My worn faith
The spirit flown
And center hollowed
And beliefs confused
Yet a rising
upwards sprout
Daniel E. Wilcox
Published in La Fenetre
Fall 2007
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