April 2022 poem harvest
2022.4.12 – Parked car
2022.4.18 – Heat rises
2022.4.21 – Such beauty surrounds
2022.4.22 – New green leaf
2022.4.23 – Bluebells and forget-me-nots
2022.4.24 – Republicans
2022.4.25 – Coffee
2022.4.26 – The low body hum
2022.4.27 – Morning walk
2022.4.28 – In dim light
2022.4.29 – The silence that’s not silence
2022.4.30 – The possibilities are endless
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Parked car
grey day
rain rhythm roof
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Heat rises
cold creeps
people lie
You got yr bear
you got yr butterfly
you got yr Pope in the would
Bone dance
birth to death
before and after
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Such beauty surrounds
yet I stare at the ground
looking for dog shit
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New green leaf
winking through
winter brown
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Bluebells and forget-me-nots
old sun new risen
goldfinch glow
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Republicans
are burning books in Texas
killing folk in Tennessee
Dark things
grow
fester
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Coffee
in sip by sip
out one steady stream
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The low body hum
of caffeine and cannabis
before dawn
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Morning walk
five deer sleeping
where red-winged blackbirds play
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In dim light
as evening evens day and night
silence thick with signal
distant traffic
burbling fish tank
clocks ticking
sleeping dog’s dream barks
and the ever-present slow hiss of reality
ringing in my ears
Be careful what you don’t say
it might define you
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The silence that’s not silence
knows yes from no
knows quicksand of maybe
abyss of never
the endless of now
I go from room to room
time follows
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The possibilities are endless
depends who’s looking when
or where
it’s a joke
a circus
and I’m the clown
I can say my way
quite cleverly
but you wouldn’t want to be me
ever
though strangely enough
I do
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