May 2017.
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May 13, 2017Love Birds
May 13, 2017
Charcoal on paper, May 2017, all rights reserved.
Is that a donkey really?
May 12, 2017
Charcoal on paper.
New Pics
May 11, 2017
Charcoal on paper, not so great (oh well!) . Bur a break from Trump. All rights reserved. k.
To Either John or Bobby
April 30, 2017
To either John or Bobby
His wave left particles
in its wake–it was a smile like that–with teeth and fingers and
photons, that is to say, charged–
And when he let it loose
upon the crowds–actually, it wasn’t like that–
his smile was not an animal
whose bars he lifted,
no, it was more like a plant–a sun flower that turned back and forth
to the crowds
as if each person who gaped
held light, only it was the smile
that held the light,
shining as toothily
as a sun, as if it were the sun
that sought the plants,
it was an odd
bi-photosynthesis that happened so fast
you could see it–as if you could see a tree grow–
can you imagine seeing
a tree grow–
which is why the cutting down
was so cruel, a tree supposed to grow
its whole life.
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For Bjorn Rudberg’s very cool prompt on particle/wave theory on Real Toads. End of April. I didn’t fully participate this year, but did get back into blogging poetry. For this I am very grateful, thanks.
A recycled drawing above from JFK’s funeral.
Competing Versions
April 29, 2017
Competing Versions
A man came out of my closet every night.
He was the vacuum cleaner, wearing
my own clothes and some of my mother’s hung
in that closet whose door was broken, so that he could never
be quite shut out, and even when I knew
his shadow well, I always would cry out,
till one day a girl in my class–her name was Glenda, sort of like
the Good Witch, except more beige, told me of the man in her closet
except he had a ten inch knife, and it was only
when she told me that they chased him all the way to a not-super-near
shopping center, and even then, not till years later
that I began to doubt Glenda with her perfect page boy,
realizing how hard it would be
to run that far, and harder still
for her to watch it, the way my guy watched me,
from the dresses still as ghosts,
the vacuum.
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Here’s another belated post for Rommy’s prompt on Real Toads about a childhood bogeyman. I am trying to catch up a bit on my April (Poetry Month) poems–don’t think I’ll get to 30, but this an extra. I feel that the better poem I’ve posted today was the previous, Penultimate, so read that before this! (Yes, I know I’m telling you to late!) Drawing is mine. All rights reserved.
Penultimate
April 29, 2017
Penultimate
You could no longer swallow, so after they finally let us say no
to the tubes, they wrapped you in white and wheeled you
out into what felt like a plastic lozenge but was also
the only way home.
It was a bitter day, and the white just thin
cotton–the gurney spindling and shaking
in the wind, the curb too high, the door too slow, nothing fast enough
in that bright blow–
so I, having flown down from winter,
wedged my woolen hat
around your head, armed your chest
with my coat
but they were women’s wear, the hat crocheted
with big petal flowers, and you
my father,
and as I worried that you’d die in them, the word dignity
ricocheting about my head, I determined that you would not die,
not on that
way home, and making (maybe) some kind of joke,
laid my head gently gently
against yours, the hat brim whiskering
my cheek
while your eyes, slitted, tried
to smile, while mine kaleidoscoped time,
and as the ambulance began its swerves,
the wagon swinging even though it did not race, I held to some
metal rail, and you to something
else, and the heat
came on at last
with the engine,
and we made it
all right.
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Draft poem for Brendan’s wonderful prompt on Real Toads to write about the penultimate, or other related matters–best to read the post itself. Drawing and photo of drawing mine. All rights reserved.
If I have time and will may try to post a few new (drafty!) things to make up missed days in April. (Sigh.) Congrats to the stalwart who have posted every day this month! And congrats to others too who have done their best!
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