Tag: separation
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Breaking Up With the Wind
Summer wind hold my hand,grasp it, rub it gentle in the sunhoneyed soothing mother’s touch. Hide the coughing chimneys up ahead,the night in the strut of yellow cat eyes,amber streetlights yielding to blue tv glows.Coming cold blows my hands into jacket tight.The star I follow now hidden, dark,lost in the arguing noise outside and in.
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The Blind Man’s Spot
My hands touch the flagstones of your tomb.In this world of persistent shadowsmy feet go numb walking to this spot.I hear the wind scuff the white granite all aroundossifying thedirt, blood, stonebelow into my nostrilsand lungs. I sit on the benchnear youalmost seeingthe specterof birdsstopping their prolong flightinto the comingstillness of night trees,never really knowing…
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The Lightening
It’s hardly remembered, this first lightening of a child—snip by snip each curl floating to the floor,causing an impatient rising from the high chairThe child wants wings. He’s evaporating in the air.Yet, the mother holds him down, cutting a heavy linkin the nape of his neck to tether him to her, the earth. “Hold my…