Red Abc Poems

Man and his dog

He awoke under the bed, and it had been his birthday
drinking champagne, eating Danish pastry, and smoking Havana cigars
He walked into the...

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In the name of peace 

I will put you against a wall, shoot you blue
green and yellow with my paint until you
a white flag of...

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The Cobwebs of Dreams

It was a sunny day, perhaps to clear
I thought
Mother sat in the kitchen sunlight, making her white hair into a halo
I asked...

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thoughts in the night

 

The wind is terrible, races around like a drunken

dervish hollering in the night, but when tired of

This needless validating of masculinity...

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After the surgery

I was flat on my back and not
allowed to move, an assistant  nurse came to feed me
A stern-looking woman older than the others
soup...

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Me a Racist
 

It was overcast this morning with fine rain
but as an offensive racist, I’m
I forced myself to get up at eight and take
a shower.  The...

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Kaleidoscope 

A man unsure of how to address women
walked into a tube of colored glasses
and bits of painted paper.

he was brought up as a Presbyterian,...

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To Know Without Knowing

Red moss, crimson as the blood of a slaughtered calf,
 I knew I had seen it before but could not recall
 where...

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A great day

Despite financial problems,
the May morning
was too beautiful to behold
the leaves on the tree on the Avenida
was deep green, the flowers 
planted around was red...

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Spring Morning

today, waking up, it was warmer, the winter 
had been cold at times, freezing electric heating
is not for those with a slim wallet

Today, we will...

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Idyllic nightmare 

I know they are good people who want us to leave 
they don't know it is their time, what's up because
our time is fine, but...

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glasses

On my desk, the driving glasses, a 15-year-old is in a right
mood for it has been a struggle
for the glasses to be
accepted again after I...

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Greenland’s American future

In Nuuk everybody lives in festive houses made of wood, green, blue and red looks homily in the winter landscape
Thei are the people...

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Painting of Oblivion

The canvas is uniformly white.  
As a screen depicts nothingness
And there is immobility.
 A red dot appears
When a mass of void moves
Into life...

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Syria’s new rulers 
I’m going out to buy two onions, flowers for my wife, and a box of red wine for no one in particular;...

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