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W. Barrett Munn
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When Pretend Time Ends
It’s that time
we’ve both been sidestepping.
Time to get real.
But I really don’t want to.
Why can’t I
drift with the high cirrus
clouds unconcerned about
the day-to-day disasters
that befall puny humanity?
Or let me be a comet,
my heart already crystalized ice
strung for a lifetime behind me
as I roar past the sun into the void.
Why is the tale told
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by that horrible doctor more real
than the tail of a comet?
We used to dance
from Tulsa to Taos, a waltz,
sometimes a Samba, across
the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma,
reaching for paint and a canvas
to capture the magic
of New Mexico’s skies, holding the colors
at the tip of our brushes,
then lying down nightly
on a pillow side-by-side.
The Red Willow People clay pot
we once found at a Taos thrift shop
isn’t suitable to be used
for an urn.
A pity.
I think she would have liked that.
W. Barrett Munn’s timeline
- July 2026
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15 WedHighest posting month
July 2026 — 7 poems
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04 SatReceived a critique
on When Coffee Dies from @Geezer
"the irony of the caffeine-fix as being the new drug in the office. We used to be worried about our kids being drug addicts, [weed or otherwise] now, we worry that they are ruining their kidneys and livers with caffeine…" -
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03 FriCritiqued
"Worn shoes on the cold sidewalk" by @hawk256
"There are a lot of interesting ideas here. The walk between two people separated could be expanded. Good thoughts here. Where the poems falls short is in the telling rather than showing of the actions. Revision amounts…" -
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01 WedCritiqued
"Another Life" by @hbserge
"I agree with AI that the strongest point in your poem is: My mind has settled down/ Take me hand/ Let's leave this town. Why does that work? First, it's visual, creating a scene we can imagine. Poetry is, after all, sto…" -
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- June 2026
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30 TueNew follower
@kellustzall
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30 TueFirst publication
Lions As Poetry
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30 TueCritiqued
"Flood" by @kellustzall
"The first stanza is engaging and interesting. Unique ways of saying things. "orange heaven beyond my vision" "Take me to the center cold" "the sun blue melts through" These are all excellent and create curiosity as to w…" -
30 TueCritiqued
"Love" by @Marykathleen Mantle
"You have a nice innate sense of rhythm. Your line lengths show that. I'd like to pass along some advice about rhyme I've heard many times from Rattle Poetry editor Tim Green. Tim said not to use the easy rhyme, the firs…" -
30 TueFirst critique offered
on "Love" by @Marykathleen Mantle
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About Me
About me
On November 21, 2021, I sent the first poem I'd ever tried to write off to Copperfield Review Quarterly and it was published. I"d published prose before, stories for younger readers in the 9-12 age group, but that was my first poem. It created a thirst in me to do better, write better, publish more often, share what I was feeling and thinking and writing about. Since then, including haiku, I've published over 90 poems in various journals, my most recent titled "Misdeal" published a few days ago by New Verse News. My goals are to break into the print in places like Rattle, Ploughshares, and the like, or if I get enough confidence, to try to build a book submission.
Location: USA
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When Pretend Time Ends
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What Was Once Beautiful
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When Coffee Dies
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Lions In Poetry
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Lions As Poetry
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Lions As Poetry
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Lions As Poetry
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