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Kim Bridgford

Poetry

Karma

By the end, you will have suffered from it all: At first you didn’t understand why people That you worked with would think about you, quibble...
Poetry

Peter

You were that kind of guy. The kind to think That you were better than the others. That’s The curse, you see. I knew that you would blame Circumstances and the atmosphere....
Poetry

You can’t go back

“You can’t go back,” my mother always said. But human nature does the opposite. (Of course, this happens, but inside your head.)...
Poetry

Lazarus

                         Fishers of men...
Poetry

At the tomb II

His offering made us see what could be done With flesh and blood. First, we had eaten from His gestures—wine and bread—and what we’d been...
Poetry

Jacob's Ladder

At first, I saw their faces, close together, And in their distance they were like the weather, The satisfaction found in abstract thought,...
Poetry

Doubting Thomas

I wish that everything could be like this—Sex, for instance. Love. To touch the bloodOf someone else by reaching deep in kiss...

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