Tag Archive: Carlos Chagall


Faith

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I don’t believe in the oven light
Things should bake in the dark

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Now We’re Cooking

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The pan we needed was nine by fourteen;
she gazed then asked, That’s circle or oval?

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Redemptive

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The question they posed
was given one cloth
would you wipe from
clean to dirt?

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They said in time all things would heal
still I journey to get out of time

I’m a scant glance askew sidled by its door
awaiting it to open

To slip stealthily through
at no time

© Chagall 2014

You Just Know

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She panicked and said that the mix was too dry
I could tell she’d not worked many doughs

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You’d take me for a ride,
how I loved when you took me for a ride.

You saved me once,
I’ve savored your being,

when you loved me
it slips away you said –
how I loved when it didn’t slip away.

© Chagall 2014

Haiku For A Sudden Rush

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Twice I watched her leave,
always the strange wisps vanished;
nothing to hold on.

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Ménage à Trois

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Twilight breeze considers the young gold flame,
with love proposes she release her heat.

The wind down on bended knee, vows to stay,
excites much sweeter but cold honeyed moons

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Pace

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Just as song the words flow
in time, gating the sense.

To know is
in the making.

The interval is not known
until the second tone.

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Dear Ma

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When I was small you took my hand, led me to distant places
around the corner and up the block

You carried me so I grew to know
the spiral of your ear and the curls about it

Your smelled of taffy, salt, and wind,
as a newborn I’d mistake that for the contour of your cheek

Senses ran together then
before words but after sound

Essentially
once upon a time

© Chagall 2014

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