Poems

Poems written by Jason E. Coombs

  • Listen,

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    Listen, a harmony can be heard in the silence between words…

  • Collective Sour

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    a draft… It was not a question of not having domination over either of your languagesto dance under a setting soundtrack of sunlight. Not hearing how Tom Jobim embraces the way you love may be why only your lips puckeraround pure cacao from a farm in Ilhéus while I sip on the collective sour of…

  • Excerpt from unfinished

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    There is a spot where the Atlantic curvesonto the rocks beside the beach when it breaks. There are many of these spots I am sure. I am referring to the one place, the one in time when friends are the waves that crash around your island at the pointwhere your lighthouse needs a keeper and…