My husband's poetry

Category: War & Politics

  • ‘Mr. Binkley’s Crab Apple Tree’

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    Running through the neighborhood, crawling under bushes, hiding in Mr. Binkley’s crab apple tree. Playing army, believing a tree, a bush, a fence or the corner of a building would protect us from death. Kids fighting imaginary wars with plastic guns. No politics or religious ax to grind. We were undefeated, waiting for the ice…

  • Low tide

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    brackish water smells of decaying reeds and fish crabs scurry back into mud, await tide’s return crest the dunes on bare feet; walk an empty beach before sun microwaves the sand unfold a chair at water’s edge, dip feet in foam, read another horrible New Yorker academic poem where sky and water meet, brown pelican…

  • Atlantic Beach

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    because they couldn’t segregate the sea they segregated beaches underdeveloped black owned beach white developers have run out of sand bankers and politicians in back pocket soon they’ll own that, too and push black ownership out to sea 5/26/24

  • In the garden

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    they say this is the year of the Dragon pishhh…why not call election years the year of the Rat ya know – the kind of rat that eats the core and leaves the scraps no more animal totems or mythology to explain prehistoric bones bleaching in the sun give me a thousand years of the…

  • Good citizens

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    clothes in the washer wind in the trees rain in the forecast crows pick at roadkill I am in our side yard thinking of soldiers on every side good citizens following orders from someone who does not fight cannon fodder roadkill stripped of identity kill or be killed statistics of war 2-24-24

  • Good citizens

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    clothes in the washer wind in the trees rain in the forecast crows pick at roadkill I’m in our side yard thinking of soldiers on every side good citizens following orders from someone who does not fight cannon fodder stripped of identity kill or be killed- statistics of war 2-24-24

  • Boomer boy blues

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    cfblack
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    I grow tired of taking blame for someone else’s transgressions. I’m not your shitty father, your handsy uncle, your asshole boyfriend, the chauvinist boss who thinks all women secretly desire him I’m dealing with my own past, my ignorance and lack empathy. I refuse to hide under a pile of dirty laundry so you can…

  • Dear Pinochio

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    I don’t know what a real little boy is only that they grow into a man and I don’t know what a real man is supposed to be View Post only that crickets stop talking to you and reality is not make believe and there is no happily ever after 2-4-2024

  • Now

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    “Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.” (Baha’u’llah) you can’t escape the forecast war is breaking out in Asia, the Middle East, Russia is being Russia, again and again and again everything screams increased crime and you don’t own a ring…