Alphabet City

my grandfather's shed was a chicken coop
though he never kept any chickens there
with gravel floor and bees
right over the door 
which made leaving hard
a large rock-hive
holed and teeming
built in the studded eave
outside the coop 
grandpa smoking 
L&Ms burning leaves
at night when the air is cool

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the shadows of stamped-brass
replicas of birds shone dazzlingly
on the mesh of porch screen
it's morning some Tuesday in time
with such fine Monday preceding
today when cold air-sun is the order
of the day: today I expel newfound rhythm
less random inhalation now I exhale, 
find the time 

not all can be neither

my memories remain 
a weathered knot I tie loosely about 
my heathered heart, my ear alert to any call
to come love 

the best is yet to come, Love

my eyes peeled
nay, pealed - really ringing!
whenever I see

to say all 
that soft lips would otherwise
touch upon lightly 
about gentle flutter
golden gutter-birds 
at play 

astray
shadows astride
a fine meshed line

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My eyes as they are
I now prefer to stay
overnight and leave
in the beautiful
breaking sun 
of new day

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I want only good things to happen for you
and when those don't I feel really bad
so I bear the difference 

Chagall 2020

despite appearances
all is exactly as it seems

staid and stale
even while nascent

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my spirit so
unlike my hands
does not chafe
then bleed
with repeated washing

fall back 
into the water

I let my heart
be buoyed

delight
in the light

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eternity today
is no longer
a tale 
of two mirrors

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with my inside out, among the lint and pebbly motes that
line the frayed seam, there in the dimpled corner of the pocket,
lies the forgotten

with a contorted wrist and extended fingertip I burrow
and I search and I probe and I find

among the bunched fabric
a hole

hope
on the rug

oddly no dreams
leaked

those instead 
tend to seep

content 
unsafe
so fragile

once
back inside
the pour
I felt
I felt
I felt

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all we need now 
is for fucking extraterrestrials
to show up 

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