https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-1523-may en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:53:00 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8909-a-poem-for-my-lover https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8909-a-poem-for-my-lover   I love my hands on the curve of your back our legs wrapped when I can't feel where I end and you begin the feel of hair moving against smooth skin my mouth, breathing your breath when our teeth touch and tongues tease I love your beard tickling behind my knees and shoulders across my stomach I love myself, when I'm with you callooh Words Words Words Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:03:27 GMT /section-335-words-words-words#comments 6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8909 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8909 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8909 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9052-sometimes-words-are https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9052-sometimes-words-are sometimes words are not enough, all there are, all you need, more than you have spilling like water, filling every space, filling every space, even space so small that whole words won't fit, but they fit, and they crowd in one upon the other, words from everywhere, words spelled and said and wished and thought, words flying from mothers at children, from the lost to God, words in love in lovers lost in desire, yes, even those wordless words. and last words, lost words, mumbled across death, errant words like Thoreau's "moose, Indian" and sometimes, it is said, amen ... more norm Poetry Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:11:03 GMT /section-379-poetry#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/9052 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/9052 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A9052 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8890-a-little-love-here https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8890-a-little-love-here The romping feet of shrew I believe,like war and faith, my father's voiceand questions, never answers(This is not the shuffle in the walls..) I watched my lawn for two decades and rejoiced for each seed eaten then gazed at each tiny gray-brown corpse and otherwise, prayed very little for their souls.  anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8890 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8890 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8890 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9076-absolute-truth https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9076-absolute-truth 2nd draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/9076 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/9076 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A9076 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8891-assumptions https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8891-assumptions Terrance took the darkness of his left handto the smoothness of his black scalp. He thought so deeply, I watched him drownin his own brown eyes. But it was words He said it was words at least. And demanded poems are here for clues. not meaning. Parenthetically, he said, "(I rarely know what I've written until I read it.)" You should be talking about meaning. I said nothing. You shouldn't be talking about meaning. I said nothing again. Terrance said, "Poetry is the language of suggestion not the language of meaning, everybody knows that." Shut ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8891 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8891 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8891 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8915-blueberries-friendship https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8915-blueberries-friendship draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8915 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8915 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8915 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8934-boomslang https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8934-boomslang My voice snakes around your ankles a soft longing just above your toes before the hissed kiss and sliding of skin on skin At the fork my tongue suggests the bite of awareness - the scent of heat the urge for writhing These are the restless humps of breath long and drawn in, short and puffed out that undulate along the edge of touch There is no forgiveness here among whispered lust only apologies and the taste of sex anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8934 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8934 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8934 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8892-crossing-lines https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8892-crossing-lines Beyond these boundaries, at memory's unfolding where paradise is the dream the dreamer sees beyond the dream where passion ignites passion flame ignores hope and we are the inferno Beyond the utmost boundaries, I crumble ruins and debris between my thumb and finger where death not measured by breath the graveyard is a pair of eyes without a tempest. Beyond these gentle beyonds, where boundaries blur to fingertips against the turgid pulse in nipples against the tropical torrents of juice between the aching soft of thighs Beyond words where emotions sing without boundaries. This is we naked. my cock against your belly my lips against yours in the holy sacrament of kiss. Yes, i understand boundaries. ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8892 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8892 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8892 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8942-for-spacious-skies https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8942-for-spacious-skies i am the phlegm -- the warm smooth vile taste of sickness cacked up, rolled on tongue and spit out like a liquid bolo. i am the philosophy of green salty gagging followed by vomit then the agony of dry heaves into a white porcelain heaven. Oh America, I am you. I am the dream. I am the fever before the fall anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8942 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8942 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8942 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8963-happy-23rd-birthday-laurie-blum https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8963-happy-23rd-birthday-laurie-blum Because I m the biggest jerk int he world, I completely forgot Laurie's birthday today. I can not say enough about how great Laurie is and how important she has been to the success of the magazine anstey Site News Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-11-site-news#comments 8 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8963 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8963 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8963 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9019-i-just-read-this-article https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9019-i-just-read-this-article I kinda liked this anstey Just a Nastey Journal Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-30-just-a-nastey-journal#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/9019 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/9019 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A9019 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8830-marriage https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8830-marriage i would not whisper stones in your ear or paint body with body on matted grass no, our trade was not for direction, or creation our do's were paid in the soft voice of hope we baked love, we glazed love, we spun love then held it to our lips, in our arms, and hips our trade will carry nothing, and serve no master no, that was not the bargain. footsteps, fingertips, and starlight on the thistles that old kettle, this hot tea   our deal is for the journey, words and a touch when there is only silence. ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8830 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8830 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8830 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8924-meat-meaning https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8924-meat-meaning crustless wonderbread light wraps the trees until a mayonaise breeze makes everything too soggy to breathe summer a muenster sun reveals the moment until seconds are sandwiched between all the bologna we're full of and the pickles we'll never forget we bite we chew we swallow anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8924 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8924 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8924 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9064-moments https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9064-moments I really don't know how to deal with it sometimes anstey Just a Nastey Journal Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-30-just-a-nastey-journal#comments 19 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/9064 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/9064 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A9064 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8916-monkeys-in-lowell https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8916-monkeys-in-lowell SO, down on Merrimack Street - Lowell's Main Street - a couple of guys just opened a place called 'Monkey' anstey Site News Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-11-site-news#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8916 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8916 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8916 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8888-no-conversation-in-a-private-forum https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8888-no-conversation-in-a-private-forum Caesar's poolboy wore a tight sparkling toga shaved every follicle from his flesh, and sluiced every cell of his skin with extra virgin olive oil until he was the song mother's sang to their sons like a warning ringing over the Tiber above a lake where the Golden Eagle stood vigil. After, in the glow of morning his body would embrace the water, a  colossus of touch & touched - until he became he clean and tall, erect like a monument polished with sheep's wool. Caesar could swim there in the pansied sun, a brutish testament to war mocking this peace of boy. Old, grissled, a new God of war and the price of freedom. The pool boy smiled until he forgot everything he once knew. ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8888 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8888 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8888 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8956-odd-glitch-adding-sections https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8956-odd-glitch-adding-sections I went to add a new section for someone and i found I couldn't edit or add sections in certain areas. Also, I learned that i can't send someone messages throught he site - the private messaging is being weird. I'm not sure why yet anstey Site News Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-11-site-news#comments 6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8956 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8956 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8956 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8889-semper https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8889-semper “What's with you and that rotary phone,” you asked once by the spruce beside the stoop Moments later, you asked me the same thing and then it was another night and our friendship was gone. A few years later, the phone rang    . . . the same. “what the hell,” you hung up on me and the spruce was dead    . . . The phone is gone rushed to the abyss by the merry progress of light through almost-wires — gone. ... more anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8889 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8889 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8889 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8985-separation https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8985-separation draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 4 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8985 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8985 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8985 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8943-site-upgrade https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8943-site-upgrade Well Folks, I upgraded the site again. You might notice that the little line of 'edit page' 'watch' 'add image' and such is MISSING!!! Don't panic, it's just moved to the right-hand side anstey Site News Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-11-site-news#comments 6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8943 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8943 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8943