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Little Black Boxes Iii

...I have collected strange things… 
In this obscure life…

I have placed them in 
Little Black Onyx Boxes old and ornate covered 
inlaid with exotic stones, metals forged unknown

These objects ...

State Hood

...Don Ho was always in trouble
For blowing a tiny bubble
When Ida was born
His cheeks went unshorn
The egg on his face was stubble...

Scottish Lore

...Haggis hype
Bagpipes bleating like unshorn sheep
Tartan theatrical - military tatoos
Scotland cloning Dolly the Sheep
National pride - Robbie Burns, poet, bard of Auld Lang Syne
Highlands of anc...

Avidity

...In the swaying middle of a dangerous voyage
To climes of far sunnier look and ripening age, 
I often fight the doubts of a death-daring wreck;
Questioning the exact wisdom of my lonely trek. 

N...

Succor

...Each galling ache with steadied prayer dispel.
Let that bland hour bleak with chilling thought
Glow with indelible joys of a yet hoping heart,
And knit such merry smiles as cute angels got. 

Ho...

Snapdragons and Dandy Lions - Part 1

...
"Snapdragons and Dandy Lions (Part 1)"


“Don’t move,” she smiled gently,
“stay there, stop fidgeting, let me put these in your hair”,
I was sitting cross-legged 
on the lush green blu...

To Herself Alone

...The enigma of a woman rests
  in what you’ll never know

Despite those things she gives to you,
  her secrets bide unshorn

Your eyes may taste and hands might touch,
  but to herself alone

...

One Veteran's Day

...firkins and gherkins and whistles and shoes
cluster bombs, punji stakes, death in the news
choppers chattering
napalm splattering
a carpet bombed mind with asian war blues

cracked vinyl record...

Aspie

...1—Milieu

Unique construction of body and mind
My niche in human pack not quickly found 
Raw young heart of a curious design
The empty mirrors for my soul abound

Subjectively a bit odd to mys...

Rough Roads To Roam

...The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned) 
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves th...

Moonpath

...Sparkling strip of silvery spray
marks a path across the bay;
downward sent from moon above,
silent stream on bouldered cove;
into these waters in unshorn skin,
she heads out on a midnight swim,...

Randomling Thoughts

...#1

I am a randomling
know not of what I sing
don’t know a freakin’ thing
that’s prob’ly why I sing


#2

Perchance the cat got out the house
evicted by the realty mouse
claiming that the...

Captain's Log

...Rescue parties in despair,
Spot his schooner drifting there
In the coming fog.
Someone heard him shoot a flare;
Naught remains, no hide nor hair,
Of the old seadog.
Fear is etched into the air,
Frant...

Descending

...i  make ready myself for an insult
and chest pain, keeping unshorn hair like nettles
on contours, to take unknown turns for restoring
the clouds on moon-blue hills, spreading the water colors
on tree...

Descending

...i  make ready myself for an insult
and chest pain, keeping unshorn hair like nettles
on contours, to take unknown turns for restoring
the clouds on moon-blue hills, spreading the water colors
on ...

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