Out of the Past
...Once a private eye I fled for my life.
I hid in Bridgeport, wanting Ann to wife.
But out of the past Whit’s thug Joe found me,
“Whit wants your snoop skills. Jeff it has t...
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Categories:
bridgeport, dark, death, film, life,
Form: Sonnet
Listen
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Listen with that, hear the words bounce back,
Listen to the Boogeyman, play the jumping jacks,
G's trading war stories smoking on the fattie that,
Got them loud joking about the ol...
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Categories:
bridgeport, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's 1922 Section 1 In Earth Raids 1976 By T Wignesan
...Translation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan
for David Attoe
Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’
Wittgenstein in Zettel
laissez pendre la ...
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Categories:
bridgeport, america, culture, earth, word
Form: Free verse
Bridgeport Connecticut
...Five years later I still think about:
sitting on the wooden steps
of your backyard
in a heatwave
summer wind bangs the screen door shut
your hair against your face, sticky heat
gravel bet...
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Categories:
bridgeport, best friend, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Memories of Mother
...Mirthful memories of stitches and axel grease,
Kennel Clubs and snicker doodles.
Memories like colors, collected on an artist’s palette,
Stirred with southpaw patience,
Finding her backward chi...
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Categories:
bridgeport, motherday, care, care, day,
Form: Free verse
My Boy / Bridgeport Ct 1981
...The images plucked from a full soft drive like over blown berries
threatening to fall……blasted to the humus. Swing chains creak.
The high-backed, heart carved, chalk white, front porch swing sways;...
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Categories:
bridgeport, childhoodhouse, school, house, school,
Form: Free verse