Author: cfblack
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Green tea
You sip green tea with lemon and ginger read a bit – listen to the world outside your porch A young dude shows up at 9 a.m. to shoot baskets in the park turns his music up real loud and proceeds to work on his game You don’t care, if his playlist is dope don’t…
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Listening to Bob Dylan at 3am
I’ve heard Paul and Ringo say in interviews that the Beatles would’ve eventually played, again if John and George hadn’t died and talked of unfinished business things they would’ve said things they would’ve done A friend of mine lost her partner to COVID-19 but not thoughts of things she wishes she had said things they…
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American tanka
ginger mockingbird blusters he controls bird seed bickers with blue jays backyard pandemic squawker calico cat will bring change 4-27-20
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Tales of an urban forest
Low hoot echos in trees night hunter warns the forest it is awake silent glide, talon snatch, tearing flesh A raccoon will eat a neighbor’s chickens, kill a cat or dig through your trash. Squirrels swirl and chase disappear when moonlight comes; fear the owl, the possum, the silence of a snake that slithers in…
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Shaking the ground
In high school, he roamed the bottom ground along the river Dreamed of living in the woods living off the land, living off the grid One day, he woke up angry he did not know why he was just angry He went searching for a dead tree bald of bark and limb He did not…
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Muddling
You were not certified to be born to nurse to be a child or an adolescent set adrift in hormonal seas You were not trained to be a friend to love to be a parent or a partner in this thing called life You were not prepared to be quarantined for COVID-19 but somehow we…
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Tombo tanka
skims above water flits in and out of sunlight seeks for love or food summer’s iridescent djinn our lily frond faerie muse 4-22-20
