Author: cfblack
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Kansas
You remind yourself If you can’t remember How to return to a place or time Don’t wear out your heels Clicking them together 11-17-21
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Party favors
She was tempted to kiss a frog French kiss an enchanted prince Popped a breath mint in her mouth Thought of everything that long tongue might do Closed her eyes, leaned in When the thought of all the slimy things His tongue had tasted Made her gag She opened her eyes Put on her coat…
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haikus in still life
in a pretty vase waist deep in sterile water compost pile calling cut flowers gasping tap water from kitchen sink trying not to die objectified pose beauty captured in full-bloom before their wilting 11-13-21
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after rain haiku
half-dressed Autumn trees shiver after last night’s rain white ships sail blue sky 11-12-21
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early Friday afternoon haiku
white blossom blushed pink brown leaves rattled, it’s okay plane hummed in blue sky 11-12-21
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“Why not say, hi?”
“She seems to know you.” “Yes.” “Why not say, hi?” He swallows a bite of the pastry we’d just bought from the girl at the counter. “She’s from the neighborhood and I had sex with her four years ago.” “And you can’t speak now?” “She had sex with all the boys; it was just my…
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Mid-November green
white blooms leaves like small hands mid-November green if mom was a southern girl she would have planted one in our yard 11-9-21
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impressionist haiku
Monet kind of day autumn trees hang upside down leaves drifting in sky 11-7-21
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Scream
A scream in the night is not meant to be a warning, but you check the front door lock and dial 911 You sit behind the curtain stare through the crack into the dark and wish you were brave enough to go outside You wait for blue lights that seem as if they’ll never come…
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Still running
After dark you walk in the park with Memories of walking to the store as kid Because you didn’t want to get caught And pay a toll to older boys, you’d run home If your father found out you ran He’d have sent you back to fight A deer snorts, jumps high and runs if…
