Author: cfblack
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sitting in the cool by myself
House music overhead counting beats So many songs the same uptempo drum line Start with a bass drum thump 1-2-3-4 Light touch of a high hat whispers in between Add tom tom and snare on the beat familiar as your heart It doesn’t matter who sings or the lyrics it is all white noise Hunkering…
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The heft of light
I went alone to an art exhibition for a friend On the way home I pondered how art changes who I am Light breaking on horizons and scenes of dusk or darkness draw me in Was it sunset or sunrise? Was the darkness evening or predawn? At 3 a.m. I stand barefoot on the porch…
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a walk in the woods
winter warm and wet moss on bare ground soft and alive a wild thing long asleep waited for the right time the right sunlight temperature and rain bend down pet it tomorrow it will leave and not return for years ‘ 1-16-20
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Burnt incense
No one wraps the news with a rubber band throws it up on your porch to read at leisure anymore Talking heads deliver it hurled in sound bites – abusive verbal beatings I receive mine from my news feed refuse to be yelled at by the properly coiffed and groomed Sitting on the porch reading…
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yellow flowers
At night, on her living room wall hung a Van Gogh reproduction of a vase of yellow flowers on a sunny day and on rainy mornings a Van Gogh reproduction of a vase of yellow flowers on a sunny day still hung on her living wall and one rainy morning you realized somewhere was a…
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night watchman
The cream colored feral cat that patrols our neighborhood and keeps us safe at night strolls in the rain down the middle of Landon Road without an umbrella Stops and asks what the hell am I doing up this time of night I want to tell him to mind his own business but it’s never…
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Dear Billy Collins
(a poem for my friend, Arik Bjorn, because laughter is the best medicine) Dear Billy Collins, Beloved of Poets and former Poet Laureate of the United States Deep in the folds of mammalian brain tissue the adolescent male never leaves He sleeps in a back hippocampus bedroom or practices butt and fart jokes in the…
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1/11 haiku
around a fire pitfriends ignore a threat of rainwatch wood become coal 1-11-20
