Author: cfblack
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mount up and fly
you don’t need a pin through your abdomen or gutted and stuffed by taxidermist to prove you are a special being and in danger of becoming extinct mount up and fly while you still can 12-9-24
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Chicken Little
sky falls on red sundown red fox licks his lips blue Wednesday morning Henny Penny screams the end is near shades of trauma prism light x and y of politics, accidents of birth world spins red, then black and back to blue do not fear children’s fables in the dark, zombies eat their own let…
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haiku of hope
high up on a branch unafraid its perch may break a crow croaks, caw, caw 12-6-24
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poem for a cold as F### day
Bright sun Blue, blue sky Cold enough To freeze my testicles off I did not move South For this kinda of day If someone has to take the blame Blame little Timmy Conroy 12-4-24
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Autumn wood glow
low flying helicopter across the face of the moon chases witches from the sky deer stands under street light possum waddles along fence neighbor waves from his porch late season tree frogs sing add another log to the fire and I oblige 10-24-23
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Peering Through the City Gate
today is suspended on a nail in a public square bleeding out upon the ground blotting out the mid-day sun an offering of sacrifice enshrined upon the mountain 7-9-24
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Don’t overeat
tomorrow is Thanksgiving I am thankful – just not the usual way no false narrative of kind Pilgrims and happy contented Indians our two daughters are gathering in Raleigh my siblings, nieces and nephews and an old aunt or two are gathering in my Indiana home ground I wish we could teleport instantaneously between locations,…
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Unmoved
(a poem for Trans awareness day) in an overgrown garden half-hidden in the weeds a concrete statue of Mary stands unmoved and alone a point of meditation long forgotten the sun shines through the clouds in subtle pinks, blues and green lichen illuminates her face clouds return to block the sun her kindness gives me…
