Poem, “Play it again, Sam”
So, if I get it right
The first time,
I’m not required
By any dusty law
To do it again.
Repetition doesn’t always
Work like fearless
Branches stuttering
In chatty unison
From an aging trunk,
Some curling
Towards the sun,
Others, insecure
In their laziness,
Weighted with memory
Of last April’s
Freezing rain.
They’ve all been
Somewhere before,
Some yearn for the sky,
Others for the
Grumbling earth,
As they did
Last year.
If I repeat the right thing,
I become the surly branch
Scanning the wrinkled trunk,
Defeated by the
Crusty chance of
Being too common
In my frantic mimes,
Just another water-logged
Dog paddling its way
Back with the same
Haggard stick in his mouth
He had twenty minutes ago
Poem, “Change”
You will, of course, change.
We all know it.
From ragged-edged coat,
Smelling of beer and car oil,
Tested every day
In the blustery wind, near
Old, dank harbors,
To rose-odored concert-goer,
Your main of hair
Waving with each breath
Of lush spring air,
Not wild as the wolf,
But tenderly, as the pliant,
Nipple-sated child.
Poem, “Morning Chatter”
Some marching-band cadence
In your voice this morning,
Candied, like
A fresh apple,
Jaunting talk, really,
Of tasks to be done
From scraps of
Stainless papers
On a refrigerator door,
Or jobs completed,
Not curfewed, but
Cashiered, coffined,
Into the glazed silence
Of a dead grandfather's
Gray eyes
A Writer’s Blues
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