Charles Eastland

THE ANGELS

I saw no wings
When each arrived
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SOLILOQUY AT THE WALL

Here at the strangely beautiful obsidian wall
we stand weak before the brave we remember
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MONUMENT

Eerie beauty of the swamp willow tree
Thrust up from the depths of the earth
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BREAKING HABITS

What I once believed was love forever
Time has peeled and dimmed that glow
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ZOMBIE LORE

Indulging dark lore
To adjust the eyes
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THE APPLE AND I

I walk in Autumn
and stop to admire
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Toes wiggle in the wavy sands sloshing summer moon surf
The male head turns smiling to cicadas’ wall of sound
Old sailor eyes swung by gravity pitched an easy glimpse
Down the beach to a female profile of clear fair skin bare
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Clever be the hunted
In sight and plight
Old fox and crow
Keep man in sight
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THE NAKED TRUTH

For the Shamers
The naked truth
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HOMING

Words from the heart
migrate like birds
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NEW BORN

Shuffling along at light speed
juggling air-traffic payrolls
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Old Plowman
(for Eph)

Rusty relics
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SPLASHING TERROR

Bombs we’re dropping there
Fill up deep bloody pools
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YOU ARE A GARDEN IN MY EYES

I see the fun of light
across your garden smile
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AT THE PORTAL

The planets and stellar art
dwarfs so the human cells
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THE WIND’S ANVIL

that tonight will be printed
in violent wind and snow
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LOVELIGHT

Something needs to replace the moon
Now that humans have stepped on it
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DOUBLE SUNRISE SHELL

She comes in the night
Packed for a trip
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OFFENSIVE DREAMING

Instead of saying prayers
When I turned out the light
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Salt

We are the lovers
Bonded by flowers
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