The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers,
The band starts bravely with a clarion hymn,
From every side, singly, in groups, in pairs,
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Did you know that Evian spelled backwards is naive?
I myself was unaware of this fact until last Tuesday night
when John Ashbery, Marc Cohen, and Eugene Richie
gave a poetry reading and I introduced them
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Palindromes are spelled the same in reverse:
“Esrow saw racecar was worse.”
Some of them seem like magic:
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Palindromes say the same
Whether forwards or reverse
It is like a word brain game
The meaning is never diverse
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Hopscotch is easy if you’re a tourist,
And the sea is easy if you’re a fish,
But your eyes I’ll never forget,
Like a woman singing in French-
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Palindromes are poems best hope
of expressions of love and peace
in places of hopelessness.
Why highlight this fantasy of confusion?
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With a friendly font,
not a miracle but a marvel.
A marvel? Remarkable.
Markable. Noteworthy.
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Palindromes and paramours walk back
And forth in the night,
Tell each other secrets, kiss:
Floods of bicycles suddenly speed by like
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Scarred in all too little ways- waiting for you
To come around, kicking balls,
Your jaw so well outlined in the pullulating rind of
Sun:
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Rather this meadow is vacating-
An esplanade curled at the corners like the
Sly smile of a coy lover-
It is too late now to start anything on fire;
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All the cherished lives building chicken coops
Up into the
Ceruleans of ceiling sky where the Titans were
Once rude,
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It’s very surprising that “SATOR Squares”
seem to appear everywhere
the mighty Roman army had gone;
can they together, really belong?
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I found a box of palindromes
Surely you're glad I had 'em
Here's one straight from the catacombs
'Madam in Eden I'm Adam'
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Violins market themselves
To the illustrious depressive culture of
Irregular devils
And the staccato signals
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