Short Membered Poems

Not an academic
Poet
Not a tenement 
Poet
Not a beat or a blues
or a church Poet
Not a famous or infamous
or celebrity Poet
Not an Irish or Basque
or Welsh Poet

Not a formal
Poet
Not a casual
Poet
Not the kind that takes
to the stage Poet
Not a tenured or membered
or club Poet
Not a for profit or glory
or fame Poet

… just a Poet

(The County Line: April, 2024) 
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Called out of breath
To be over there when
Bodies amass and gasp
Truncated furloughs
Through downtown no dose
And beated arms grasp
Pointedly for drowning sensation

Raised eyebrows at consumption 
and withdrawal 
Not content to sit drooping
And chalkboard signs spell stupor

Porous passion
Healing internal wounds
Like feather surgeons 
Taking me back re-membered 
When all explorations
Held their own song...

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Listen to poem:

The 23rd Chapter found ...

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In their ending man destroyed their heaven and their earth.

And the earth being without form and void; 

Presents its re'-membered nothingness back into the darkness of familiarities 'ere alienation out of the commonalities that are the countenance of deep space.

The Spiritual force  ... "Do you hear and see, what the deaf and blind, had known."   ~~~~~~~~> touch ...

 ... conceptual introvertism...

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