Lonnie Hicks Poems

Step by step her fate clicked, her hand shook,
her heart mixed, of love for him, and love for Him
and love for her baby seed.
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If I can by the weight of my mind
affect the frequencies between
you and I
and mere proximity
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Dying is such a huge responsibility
I'm not sure I'll even attend.

Will there be sad tears
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He had a face of chiseled granite
complete with stony smile
that face is embedded in my heart
which lies clutched here
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You shot me with those frozen bullet eyes
which at first ice-berged the center of my soul

but I didn't die.
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The day ejected me like bad Taco
and I tumbled out onto my mattress
prepared to stare up at my mobile all night.
Sleep would not come to me in that darkness.
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The most profound thing Einstein said
is that time is taffy, malleable.

And so is space.
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If words can speak to the human heart
then these
are aimed at yours.
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If I make a word
it is first sculpted from letters
on the page
a canvass across which
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Much is made of the human eye-
often said to be the soul's window pane-
but I
wonder what is seen when
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