Lonnie Hicks Poems

She sat down to feast
at Life's Table
polishing stars
for the summer night;
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'Come over here' he said

'Let's you and me
talk private.
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If I fly
then I am off the ground.

If I am off the ground
...

'It's all a road we build'
he said
'you lay down the concrete
or tar for the asphalt;
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You can break my heart
but it is a heart
only you can fix.
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Generational change
wins always
because the old and middle-aged
develop a clouded lens
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In my photo album
languish years

compressed and angled
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I am in the middle of this book about President Obama.
I am from Chicago, He is from Chicago.
He did his community work in the neighborhood where I grew up.
He was a senator from my old neighborhood of Hyde Park.
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The Poets all march to the edge-
some perching
at the abyss of Screaming Desire;
Hearts exploding
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These lights gather round
fluttering-
one brighter than the other-
but the latter glows yellow with joy;
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