Articles by Wayne F. Burke
Poem
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Nap
() poem unrhymed
"...under fierce blue clouds thick as pillows..."
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Fame
() poem unrhymed
"...when men and women with cameras and microphones come to the door..."
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One Dog Then
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"...in the bark of early morning..."
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Stiff
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"...far from any care..."
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Slept 8 Hours Straight
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"...so beautiful sparkling blue and electric-green..."
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Mush
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"...the road a sheet of ice..."
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Day's Inn
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"...is whatever he's got creeping underneath my door?.."
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Champ
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"...I laughed at them, the wind in my face..."
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Glucose
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"...I never knew I had..."
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Stung
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"...a wasp stuck its triangular head out..."
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Hot
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"...the blood red sun that scorched the pavement...
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Fried
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"...sizzled like bacon on the grill..."
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Belief
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" The important thing is to not die...
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Cuffs
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"...only more of the same cold rain..."
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Get up to sit-up
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"6:08 AM bird peeps from meadows of fire..."
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Shiver
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"...a cold wind, blowing gray scrum of clouds..."
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Lake Champagne
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"...a million specks of light, two million divots of shadow..."
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Sat by the River
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"...purling and deep from snow-melt..."
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Ambition
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"...stuck in a failure of imagination..."
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Local #1
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"...demented saga greater than Beowulf..."
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Jungen
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"Ponce de Leon went looking for the Fountain of Youth..."
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Atlanta to Destiny
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"...toward a smooth ending on the tarmac of dreams..."
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The Day After
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"...she will not rise until noon..."
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Me
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"...the window shade down so I can not see out..."
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On the Ray de oh
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"...another voice selling something I do not want..."
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Mz Mandelstan
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"...long frizzy hair, hippy garb, granny glasses..."
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Awake
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"... determined to drive me insane then kill me..."
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Visitor
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"the echo of a shout in the bedroom..."
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Coffee
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"met an old buddy on the street..."
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Neitzsche
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"...the "Argonaut of the Spirit" had no more to say..."
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Back at Camp
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"we cosmonauts are on sacred ground..."
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SOS
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"...a final message from the front, a last hurrah..."
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Gaius
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"...one AM, and pretty sure I will never sleep again..."
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I Wake
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"...a sentence 3 pages in length..."
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Tonight
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"...spaceship earth, or stay within these white walls..."
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Bacchus
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"...he jabbers at me in French..."
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Not Forgive
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"...true Dionysian, letting go resentments and hurts..."
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All-Star
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"...cut, he quit cold turkey..."
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Under the Volcano
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"...how about that taxing Taxcala chapter?!.."
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acceptance
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"word comes down from the North..."
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Vacation Haiku
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"...uneasy sleep beside the ocean..."
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I've Flown with the Birds
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...I've kept mostly to myself..."
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Read Funny Sad Letters
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'..."I am Me," Ginsberg writes...'
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(from) Haiku You!
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"...dry leaves slither along the pavement..."
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Soul
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"...I think I have one..."
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Friends
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"...Got some gall I think..."
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N.C. (1926-68)
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"...death came floundering down the line..."
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HENRY'S
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"...at HENRY’S diner in the aftermath of Covid..."
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Black Shoe
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"...Like a foot thirty years barely beating..."
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Hotel Room, Panama Beach, Florida**
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"...rain bullets raking the deck windows..."
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I Got The
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"...got to got to sweep the floor make some money..."
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College!
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"...searching for Truth, gathered in forums..."
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Jock
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"...Oh, I'd forgot-- because I do not care..."
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Dream
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"...report immediately to the auditorium to read the poem..."
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Black birds float
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"...in the pale blue sky of dusk..."
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Ku/haiku
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Haiku thoughts
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Drenched
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"...I woke to the great city, cars people, buildings..."
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Artist
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"... Clueless how to approach such a thing...."
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An Acrid Smell
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"...the river glimpsed through roadside trees, the Androscoggin..."
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Called Out
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"...having trouble catching his breath and climbing stairs..."
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Meanwhile
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"...a beak-nosed craven twerp..."
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For the Day
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"...The ocean outside the hotel window looks peaceful..."
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Squiggles
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"...I was excited, had never met an artist before..."
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Bird Brains
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"...To make and drink coffee? Sit in the sun?..."
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Memorial Day
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"...we kept the tank engines running all night long..."
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Thin Poem
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"...none of' the rest matters..."
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Eyetalians
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"...they made dandelion wine and grappa in their cellars..."
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Don't Wait for Me
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"...I see a hand swipe the plate from the table..."
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30 Days
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"...Hey, I am paying you, man!.."
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Girls
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"...they laughed louder and I was embarrassed..."
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Forever
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"...Absence of Time means no reason to kill Time..."
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Back Road
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"...idolaters, cannibals, emerging from holes..."
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Wish
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"...should have wished for..."
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The Kid
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"they told me take a dive..."
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tweet
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"...like death's sentinels from the porch railing..."
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Flight to Destin, FL
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"...slow-mo with snowy landscape below..."