Category: neighbors
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Parking lot civics
Last night, I dreamed of the old man who used to rest his hand on my head while talking with dad in the parking lot after church. He lived in an old clapboard farmhouse where gravel turned to blacktop and subdivisions grew among the corn. Rooted in old settler stock, he ran for state legislature…
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Monday morning
He stirs last night’s ash Blows a spark to flame Sips his coffee warm Nods to the night shift nurse, who goes four times around the park Smiles at the muscle shirt dude Who walks three dogs and never scoops Greets the bright colored walking stick lady All dressed in white Watches an anole race…
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Glass house
Morning walk White-haired lady asks what goes on In the ball diamond parking lot at night The flip flops, condoms and panties I say I try not to judge She takes up where she left off I smile and say I refuse to judge you By what you did fifty years ago She blushes, looks…
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Voyeurism 101: Saturday Morning at the Soda City Market in Six Easy Lessons
1) Arts and crafts – your name in wood, Handmade bird houses and bowls to sit on a shelf Tee-shirts – tie dyed, cute sayings, political epithets, Painted flags, cows and chickens with claws, birds on the beach Handmade pens and jewelry maybe imported from third world sweatshops 2) Food booths and trucks – artisan…
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A gardener and his son
between fence and street with found lumber and old skids a gardener and his son build Eden’s wall plant tomatoes and squash, peppers and beans curse animals that steal in the night pull weeds with bare hands watch yellow blossoms swell to fruit talk with neighbors passing by about the rain 5-24-22
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pre-mortem meditation
Boney ass jowls bite chair You research Meningiomas Read how they normally Are slow growing and benign And hope yours is not exceptional Walking with reading glasses on Makes you dizzy and you think, Maybe, it is better to remove the glasses Each time you rise to pee Or give up reading altogether And never…
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Worship day
On Sunday, dog walkers sleep in Mowers and blowers slumber in sheds Old man gathering sticks in his yard Watches a bike rider disappear over hill Bull frog does its best impression of Barry White Booming bird calls in woods A friend of a vegan friend with COVID, texts Can you drop almond milk off…
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dog walker haikus
yellow dog, brown dog black and tan, brindle or white tight, shaggy or coiffed respectful walkers stoop to gather poop in bags before they stroll on penis on a chain pit bull mix pulls him through park too proud to bag shit Chihuahua on leash acts like it’s a big, bad dog makes me laugh…
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you nod from your porch I nod while I walk this intimacy of strangers sustains us both 9-6-21
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