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Jeff Reed

1141 Bont Lane
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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Wind in the Reeds Poetry

Jeff Reed

  • Themed Projects
    • Chiastic Poetry
    • Sea to Sea
    • Animagus Extinctio
    • Under a Runaway Throttle
  • Lent Projects
    • Autophagy Briefs (2026)
    • The Strange Sum of Things (2025)
    • Butterfly Glory (2024)
    • Psalm 37 Menagerie (2023)
  • Poems
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August 30, 2025 Jeff Reed

Í am bórn stáring at a céiling póised overhéad

like a collíding plánet.  My lífe’s fúel is spént

swímming thróugh invísible fíelds 

of grávity reléntlessly préssing

the wéight of wórlds

dówn.

My smáll-boned béing

dáily bénch-presses ský,

as Í walk cásually dówn the stréet,

the whóle héavens plúmmeting fíre-tailed cómets,

my úpward gáze–Sísyphus púshing báck the stórm.


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