Author: cfblack
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3 haikus while meditating on friends old and new who are standing at the door or waving from the next room
in early morning before light gathers you in cast your shadow long long before it’s cold some leaves grow tired and lie down in the midst of green prayers for a friend bitter taste lingers on tongue a cup of dark roast 9-2-21
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Covid dream poem
dark obsidian night of being sent to your room for something your emotions have no control over it’s not your fault or anyone else’s it just is to get away you climb a sugar maple in your neighbor’s yard because if you climb your mother’s trees she’ll use the belt to protect her trees from…
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haiku for 1st of September
the skies speak of rain but my weather app doesn’t confirm iPhone apple sauce 9-1-21
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early morning haiku
swelter of summer fairies await cooler days mushrooms take a nap 8-31-21
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haiku to a wildflower
be kind to yourself garden flowers’ ancestors mother curses as weeds 8-31-21
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We were the class of ’70
We were children pretending to be adults. This was our seeding, the setting of roots until our transplantation. If these were our glory days what the hell have we been doing for 50 years? We were the bridge between the gap a bridge over troubled waters waiting for the bus at McCord’s running to Goodnight’s…
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haiku for the Tri-State construction traffic jam around Chicago
road river riders orange and white sentinels line the path through hell 8-26-21
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hometown visit haiku
the mountain flows up from where the river pulls it one piece at a time 8-22-21
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haiku driving north through Indiana flatlands
distant horizon anvil cloud draws rain curtain across fields of corn 8-19-21
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Purple Blouse and Red Shoes Dates Online
purple blouse and red shoes asks “Are you Dan?” you smile and say, “No” she sits down at the table by the door asks every man who looks at the purple blouse “Are you Dan?” man comes up to purple blouse and says “Hi, I’m Dan” “I’m sorry I’m late. May I buy you coffee?”…
