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Diary from solitaire

Mar 18, 2021

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Think these bars…..pillars Live in a plantation mansion Lie about all day No one interrupts your reveries Clean clothes and linen You promenade the halls Guards serve you hand and foot Cuisine in need of a better chef 3-18-21 *note from wife: no idea what tags to put w/ this one

21st century nude

Nov 13, 2020

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cfblack

in beauty, history, sexism

crystallized carbonate mountain marble goddess inside is being quarried _____ her shape wrapped hidden in garments heavy as stone _____ this time strong rough female hands sculpt their vision 11-13-20

Letter to Mom

Nov 11, 2020

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cfblack

in Belonging / Loneliness, Birds, covid, Death & Afterlife, Family, history, Racial & Social justice, War & Politics

(a narrative poem) Dear Mom, The weather in South Carolina is nice; the forecast is for 81 degrees with light rain. It is November 11th; leaves are gold, red, yellow and green. Water drips from trees, birds call from the woods in the park. I hear the weather forecast where you’re at is perfect and…

A One Sentence Poem Written on the Last Friday Before the First Tuesday of November 2020 and the Title Is Longer than the Poem’

Oct 30, 2020

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cfblack

in history, violence

If Tzar Nicholas Was His Own Rasputin, Would The Nobles Have Let Him Live? 10-30-20

In my veins

Oct 15, 2020

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cfblack

in Death & Afterlife, Family, for someone else, history, Time

In my veins, my parents walk hand in hand reading letters written across the ocean of a world war. I look out with my father’s eyes remarking on the country he fought to preserve and the sad state of his Grand Old Party or with my mother’s eyes to see what season it is and…

conversations with the memory of a young girl

Sep 30, 2020

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cfblack

in for someone else, history, immigrants, Racial & Social justice

soles on cold concrete my bare feet absorb last night’s chill I watch parents with children in strollers linger in the park remember a young girl who lived with her parents on my paper route the only daughter of Holocaust survivors she invited me in from the cold fed me cookies and hot cocoa taught…

The Myth of Wade Hampton III – Part I

Aug 8, 2020

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cfblack

in history, Illusion, the South

He danced with all the ladies sword at his side metals on his chest a fine bushy faced fox at wartime cotton patch cotillions When hounds were heard howling his name across the river he tucked his tail and fled into the woods and fields Yipping in shadows until Rutherford leashed the hounds the dandy…

Drowning in air

Jul 24, 2020

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cfblack

in Belonging / Loneliness, corporate America, Family, history, Racial & Social justice

Decades from now they’ll join ancestry.com hoping DNA matches explain why they don’t look like their family why aunts and uncles are hush hush and still they’ll love their adoptive families They’ll seek out birth families that have been looking for years praying for a miracle hear their momma died broken hearted in a barrio…

The day before

Jul 3, 2020

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cfblack

in history, holidays, Racial & Social justice

The day before the 4th of July: Independence Day for white Americans Genocide for first Americans 3/5 of a man for black Americans What was the intent of this experiment this Constitution It’s obvious and I don’t care about original intent ‘Founding Fathers’ understood this was not perfect or Why else allow amendments 7-3-20

When the world became flat, again

Jul 2, 2020

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cfblack

in corporate America, frustration, history, ignorance, Racial & Social justice, violence

When the world became flat, again When science denial became in vogue When “the world’s equilibrium hath been upset” When billionaires received government assistance before the poor When separation of church and state became a lie When not paying taxes became a badge of honor When white supremacists crawled out of their holes When concentration…

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