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  })();</description><title>Nite rote</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @niterote)</generator><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Another Day</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Almost blue&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it will turn green if you wait&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;long enough to hurt&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Water of the moon&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;gives musicians time to choose&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;how reality flows&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I held her strong neck&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;but my hands were much stronger&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;our love wouldn&amp;#8217;t break&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50851242828</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50851242828</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 17:11:35 -0400</pubDate><category>senryu</category><category>surreal</category><category>haiku</category><category>surrealism</category></item><item><title>Classy</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Spider spends the web&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;on something a little extra&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;silky finance scheme&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Time shows tenderness&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;with your cheekbones my lady&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;but I am ruthless&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More than skin and bones&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;free space and your breath&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;shadow of moon rocks&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50665237155</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50665237155</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:29:17 -0400</pubDate><category>senryu</category><category>haiku</category><category>surreaism</category><category>surreal</category><category>bones</category><category>sonic</category></item><item><title>The Market </title><description>&lt;p&gt;If you continue&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am going to change&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;into an ammonite&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My empire of dirt&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;was the genesis of red wine&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and the thing itself&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50427807002</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50427807002</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:52:36 -0400</pubDate><category>surreal</category><category>haiku</category><category>senryu</category></item><item><title>Quiet</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I can hear&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if it is quiet anywhere&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it is in my mind&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#8217;re a number&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and she is next&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;then I am zero&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I took no pain pills today&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for the first time in three days&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it was hot outside&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The folds of the brain&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;velveteen rabbit discarded&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;still wiggle your toes&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50354378814</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50354378814</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 14:17:32 -0400</pubDate><category>haiku</category><category>senryu</category></item><item><title>You Are Hopeless</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I thought they would&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;eat me alive&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;omnivores&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We went to those places&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;just to find out&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;what place were were in&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We were flexible&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the knees of a newborn baby&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;my next adventure&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Each ashen ember&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;lives all too briefly&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;on its ashen journey&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are all echos&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;basking in resonance&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;before we go calcified&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50296845924</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50296845924</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 19:06:00 -0400</pubDate><category>prose</category><category>poetry</category><category>poem</category><category>haiku</category><category>senryu</category><category>surreal</category></item><item><title>Timemachine</title><description>&lt;p&gt;While it hails fiercely&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;your body of clay and jade&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;holds on much fiercer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stark savagery fell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;upon &lt;span&gt;wings of quintessence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;into our ancient embodiment&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50036517055</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/50036517055</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:14:27 -0400</pubDate><category>senryu</category><category>haiku</category><category>timemachines</category><category>surrealism</category><category>surreal</category><category>prose</category><category>prose poetry</category></item><item><title>I Breathe the Air</title><description>&lt;p&gt;She wiped off my glasses&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;handed them back slowly&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and began to cry&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Visions of bison yesterday&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;today only pomegranates&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;were eaten&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Evolved time crystal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;or the shadow of a bee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;through a clear cup of tea&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Swoop me up or drift on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;each time the sound of feet&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;approaches I hear wings&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I tripped on the earth&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and now the whole thing decided&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I shouldn&amp;#8217;t run anymore&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49945424998</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49945424998</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:07:24 -0400</pubDate><category>haiku</category><category>senryu</category><category>poetry</category><category>poem</category><category>prose</category><category>words</category><category>surgery</category><category>surreal</category><category>surrealistic</category><category>surreaism</category></item><item><title>That grey round drift cloud
is bullet to your brain
rolling...</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/41122514?portrait=0&amp;color=16fabd" width="400" height="224" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;That grey round drift cloud&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;is bullet to your brain&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;rolling around you&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49874740774</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49874740774</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:14:13 -0400</pubDate><category>xxyyxx</category><category>smoke</category><category>harmonics</category></item><item><title>Idle Like</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The wake of being so present and the cough of the hesitant&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why do the birds that sing before morning choose my window&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cold and hands the curse of being so powerful like Lenny and the soft door mouse&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;or boys and girls who just act nice&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The tyranny of art and the unhindered heart&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So be it&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Act like me and put a smile on your face like me, easy like me, easy like like&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Its me and the ghost for days whispering te queiro on the plateau at no one in particular&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In particular it is everyone that I like, but in particular&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it is blue eyes inside and out&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it is blue eyes inside and out&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A bee bumble bee buzzing by the body&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I carry you to my mouth&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the heartbeat of a bird beating in my hand stings me&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;so be it&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;so be it&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49748590159</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49748590159</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 23:38:08 -0400</pubDate><category>poetry</category><category>senryu</category><category>poem</category><category>prose</category><category>lyrics</category><category>birds</category><category>bees</category><category>lyrical</category><category>haiku</category></item><item><title>Orange</title><description>&lt;p&gt;When they open my knee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;they&amp;#8217;ll find aggression, power chords, and the starfish of yesterday&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;they&amp;#8217;ll have to modify their expectations&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and up my dosage of divisions&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ll divide my muse in one and consume tomorrow&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As this will be my last nite on earth in human form&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I want to lay with Omega Centauri one last time&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49497540749</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49497540749</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 02:29:54 -0400</pubDate><category>prose</category><category>poetry</category><category>poem</category><category>surgery</category></item><item><title>Aerials</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Among multitudes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;eyes find their celadon door&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;so familiar&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That moment just when&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the sun reflects on water&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and you close your eyes&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49460916479</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49460916479</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:20:07 -0400</pubDate><category>senryu</category><category>haiku</category></item><item><title>The City and the Mountains</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I am nettles, dappled skin, and her wide tongue&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You are sad sad city, electric organs, and the wolf&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;the greatest forgotten orgasm in history,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;sore throat that lingers in the morning&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You are flexible and painted in ochre blood&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;the pallor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; after lunar bloodletting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You are undone and last great hope for humanity,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;up too late, armpits, and powerful&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49341332908</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49341332908</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 01:42:00 -0400</pubDate><category>elephants</category><category>poetry</category><category>poem</category><category>prose</category></item><item><title>Pour Over It All</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The other day&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I woke up next to a goddess,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;held a clump of dark matter in my hands,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and received a letter from a Bavarian countess&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49231816257</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/49231816257</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:55:36 -0400</pubDate><category>prose</category><category>poetry</category></item><item><title>Dream</title><description>&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine had a dream about me where a harlequin jester pulled him out of bed took him on a boat, which I was steering. He noticed that the moon was near the horizon, and ghostly grey.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine had a dream where we were out shopping for wedding bands together. Mine was made of a meteorite.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine had a dream where she made me cry. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I had a dream about you last nite and every nite before. I haven&amp;#8217;t even met you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What did you dream about me?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48880021676</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48880021676</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:53:01 -0400</pubDate><category>haiku</category><category>senryu</category><category>dreams</category><category>prose</category><category>poetry</category><category>poem</category></item><item><title>Flucuations</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Did your eyes talk to the seeds&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;did the clouds fall at your behest&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a leap of faith at your proudest moment&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;did you choose that shade&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;did your journey begin and end on the same set of roads&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;put yourself to bed&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;in the end we are obscure&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;put your self in the part&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;your eyes play your part&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;we emerge eye to eye&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;appearing fully formed and crystalline&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48760069412</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48760069412</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:44:00 -0400</pubDate><category>poerty</category><category>prose</category><category>words</category><category>eyes</category></item><item><title>Home</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The house I grew up in&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;isn&amp;#8217;t even there anymore&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the idea isn&amp;#8217;t even there&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48626850244</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48626850244</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:46:58 -0400</pubDate><category>haiku</category><category>senryu</category></item><item><title>Farewell</title><description>&lt;p&gt;In multitudes a singularity&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;before a sullen &lt;span&gt;steep &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;sleep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;where hills &lt;span&gt;sleep too,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;there exists a winged &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;victory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;beyond &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;symmetry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;it has a puckering &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;taste,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;just brushing against&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;jade and clay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;the shadow nuzzled,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;a bird coughs on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; clouds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;a spider on water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;a spirit edging&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48463174153</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48463174153</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:11:21 -0400</pubDate><category>noise</category><category>desert</category><category>clouds</category><category>haiku</category><category>senryu</category></item><item><title>Focus</title><description>&lt;p&gt;A raven landed&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;shaking water from the branches&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;while collecting hearts&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I held the moons hand&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;we pulled the sage oceans taught&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and tended the tides&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48368779064</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48368779064</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:09:00 -0400</pubDate><category>senryu</category><category>haiku</category><category>oceans</category><category>ravens</category><category>corvid</category><category>corvids</category></item><item><title>Future Proof</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Had no fun in Rome&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Eyes behind to the stabbing&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So then I came home&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thanks for this one Rose&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48301809609</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48301809609</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:05:00 -0400</pubDate><category>haiku</category><category>senryu</category><category>travel</category></item><item><title>Scar Project</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Summer scar project&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;find the girl with the signet&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;on her jugular notch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The love is over&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;but who told the blackbirds this&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and the bitter end&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48131667542</link><guid>http://niterote.tumblr.com/post/48131667542</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:51:10 -0400</pubDate><category>haiku</category><category>senryu</category></item></channel></rss>
