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OUT FRONT
_________
I am grateful for...
The arched roof above my head
The twin rafters with
The twin lights, holding it in place
The four walls surrounding me
The two windows with
The two Venetian blinds, down & shut at all times
The red brick floor below my feet
The wooden shelves full of books & movies
The VHS by themselves & DVDs in clear totes
Th...
Tuesday 20th September 2022 6:10 pm
SAMARITAN
SAMARITAN
__________
Anyone else
Would've left that Far Right
Reactionary sprawled on the concrete
To bleed out, suffer in his
Paroxysms of serious hurt, receive
Disaster of the steel-toed kind.
But not you.
The Good Samaritan
Reflex kicked in,
Wouldn't let you
Abandon someone in need of help.
Distinctions such as
"Friend" and "foe" did...
Tuesday 20th September 2022 5:43 pm
DISEASE BREEDS DISEASE
DISEASE BREEDS DISEASE
_____________________
Strange new ailment
Giving pneumonia-like symptoms
Has a ripple effect
Spanning our globe.
Floating on the wind, harm to health,
Diaspora of microbes--
Point of outbreak:
Wuhan, China.
Within a month, fate's transmission
Country by country. Bad news travels fast.
Reported cases of Coronavirus
Breeds ...
Tuesday 20th September 2022 5:14 pm
ABSENT FATHER
ABSENT FATHER
_____________
The father of
Seven children
Is absent from home.
Seven children are
Missing a playmate,
Missing a teacher,
Missing a provider.
He was lured
Away from his
Personal kingdom, beyond
The wildlife sanctuary.
A rifle,
A crossbow
Hastened his subtraction
From the dense
Equation of life.
Now the royal
...Saturday 27th August 2022 4:37 pm
ONLY THESE REMAIN
ONLY THESE REMAIN
_________________
Only these remain
Anatomical remains.
Construction
Sites unearth
Disconnected
Joints.
Only these remain
Skeletal remains.
Shellmounds disturbed--
Buried no more.
Bagged, tagged & stored
In a file cabinet drawer.
Only these remain
Ancestral remains.
Evidence that they
Existed here l...
Saturday 27th August 2022 4:21 pm
THIRST
THIRST
______
Did you ever wonder how our planet's end may come?
By warming or by freezing? The warming arrives first.
As the Golden State continues to desiccate, people scramble for some
Water, any amount, to moisten their throats, remove their thirst.
____________________________________________________
W: 6.20.14
[ From the book Plans, Nomadic Press, 2022. ]
...Saturday 27th August 2022 3:56 pm
PREFERENCE
PREFERENCE
_________
Statuesque.
Beautiful.
Exotic.
High-maintenence.
Men from all quarters would
Slay each other to the death to
Get close enough to
She of milk-like pallor, shadow
Painted lips, shadow
Painted nails, flowing hair and
Garments that compliment her supple shape,
Fine-boned corset that embraces her
Ribs tightly, all black
As evening w...
Saturday 5th June 2021 3:57 am
MINNEAPOLIS WEEK
MINNEAPOLIS WEEK
________________
Most Black men
In the U.S.A. have
An oppressor's leather boot
Applied to their necks.
George Floyd
Died untimely
With the knee of
Police repression on his.
George Floyd
Complained of
The knee's pressure restricting his oxygen.
He couldn't breathe--we couldn't breathe.
Derek Chauvin
Never respected the li...
Saturday 5th June 2021 3:38 am
SERAPH WINGS
SERAPH WINGS
____________
She--English student-to-be
He--Art student
Accessorised well in cool black
Clothes as two roving assassins would
But they weren't assassins
They were just young, creative, self-expressive
Goths in love, bonded souls
With a beautiful future ahead of them
They both enjoyed the quietude before midnight
In a walk through Stubbylee Park--
...
Monday 24th May 2021 4:32 pm
CONUNDRUM
CONUNDRUM
As a twiggy little boy of 9,
I was so curious
About the bumblebees hovering
Over blood-red roses, flesh-pink roses,
Bushes filled with pale-yellow honeysuckles
That grew in my Grandmother's yard.
So curious, when I reached out to touch one,
That bumblebee stung me with its
Needlelike tail, leaving behind a mark,
Swollen red, painful,
On the caramel ...
Monday 19th October 2020 5:48 pm
SCARLET TRIANGLE
SCARLET TRIANGLE
Desperate bid
For re-election
Social media master plan:
Twist public perception
Of who the real
Public enemy is
The real dangerous mob
The real security risk
"And you shall know them
By this distinctive sign":
Scarlet triangle
Inverted design
Bright red as anger
Hardly concealed
Bright red as blood wrath
On these stree...
Monday 19th October 2020 5:13 pm
WASHA-QUON-ASIN
WASHA-QUON-ASIN*
Many who had hiked through Canadian wilderness
[ A cenutry ago ] Took notice of a bird in flight
A rare one the Ojibwa called
Washa-quon-asin--He who flies by night
At once: a hunter, a guide, a trapper
A living made from the furs in his sight
A rare one the Ojibwa called
Washa-quon-asin--He who flies by night
Into his forest lair, he...
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 8:26 pm
APOCALYPTIC SKY
APOCALYPTIC SKY
Yesterday
Had proven science fact
Much stranger than fiction:
Vivid orange night
Replaced
Bright turquoise morning.
Sunlight was postponed.
Normalcy took a holiday.
My neighbour's
Barnyard animals,
Five chickens, two goats,
Didn't know what was going on
With their immediate surroundings.
Neither did that lone bird in flight.
...Tuesday 22nd September 2020 7:47 pm
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