Author: cfblack
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how about you?
sharp Fall mornings cut through summer clothes how about you? I await the sun and lingering summer how about you? COVID isolates this extrovert twists my brain in knots how about you? vicissitudes of aging don’t mesh with young desires how about you? 10-20-21
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Careful
outside a bakery you yearn for fresh bread at the kitchen table with a slice of fresh bread you yearn for butter and jam 10-20-21
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Manufacturer’s warranty
You wake in the middle of the night stare into the bathroom mirror resisting the urge to call your mom and tell her to tell dad That you are okay and following doctors orders Because the manufacturer’s warranty they purchased still has thirty years before expiration and you will get through this little matter of…
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avian tanka(5-7-5-7-7)
songbirds in trees trill descants above traffic’s drone listen quietly moaning morning monotones disappear and fade away 10-15-21
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Seventeen lumens of light
threaded morning light wet grass glistens in shadows dew walks with the sun 10-15-21
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yellow haiku in a blue cup
morning runs away plays with light among the trees I sip coffee…cold 10-14-21
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runaway leaf
dangled on a spider’s thread simple shape no forking fingered hand golden spinning blade in angled early light last night’s descent caught mid-flight upon a fiber hold still I’ll untangle you help you land 10-13-21
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Fall festival
day leans away from light mushrooms brown to rot gather high the firewood winter waits for solstice moon moss lies green upon the hill I think I’ll rake some leaves 10-12-21
