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For Tuco

By Eric Dean | December 9, 2016 - 4:03 pm |December 9, 2016 Poetry
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  Back, way back, before the birth of Henry Ford, we’d surf across rivers on the backs of crocodiles. “Avoid the mouth and you’ll be … more →

Clinging

By Eric Dean | July 17, 2015 - 6:32 pm |January 30, 2017 Art, Poetry
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  [originally published by Monologging, Winner of the  Monologging Pictured Pause People’s Choice Award for 2015]   I awoke from a nightmare once in my … more →

miss you

By Eric Dean | February 2, 2015 - 2:55 pm |October 4, 2016 Poetry
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[published in the 2016 issue of J’Parle’ Literary Magazine]   It’s hard to sleep with the fish hooks tugging taut lines under the sheets, between … more →

my love is heavy and unchecked

By Eric Dean | December 23, 2014 - 9:59 pm |July 19, 2016 Poetry
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  I heard your name before I ever saw your face The collective crush of a gang whose lips made love to your name   … more →

Hypobole

By Eric Dean | December 16, 2014 - 8:54 pm |July 19, 2016 Poetry
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  I had a dream about you last night. Your jaw, specifically, and the way your earring swings back and forth in front of it … more →

Mamihlapinatapai

By Eric Dean | November 18, 2014 - 10:56 pm |July 20, 2016 Poetry
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  We’re coiled. Snaked up and writhing, clutching, pushing, pulling, pressing what flesh we consider safe and getting close enough to breathe one another’s breath … more →

“no time for foreplay” – Papyrus, Volume 10, 2005

By Eric Dean | November 11, 2013 - 8:53 pm |November 11, 2013 Poetry
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This poem was originally published in Oklahoma State University’s Papyrus, Volume 10, in 2005.

fabric folds and flat expanses

By Eric Dean | September 4, 2013 - 2:14 pm |February 17, 2015 Poetry
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[This poem was first published in issue 9 of The Literary Hatchet. More details HERE] In the shadowed fabric folds and flat expanses of bed you’ve … more →

“Prelude to silence” (August, 2011)

By Eric Dean | August 26, 2013 - 6:28 pm |July 22, 2016 Poetry
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  A volcano in the desert All it knows is reaching Tearful eruption Violent expression Full feeling Among quiet, shifting dunes.   The sand urges … more →

Moving Out

By Eric Dean | July 3, 2013 - 5:06 pm |February 20, 2014 Poetry
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(originally published here in The Commonline Journal) . . . Whatever you were seems more than you have become, but what you lost was dead … more →

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