David Nelson Bradsher Poems

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1.
Yesterday Is Forever

You might disown my bitter tone
and lump me in with crazy men,
but when I think and speak in ink
you'll have to kill my tilted pen
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2.
Primary Care

She rises painfully—without complaint—
haloed by silver-white in feathered hair,
and she assists her husband from his chair,
dragging her shadow like a burdened saint.
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3.
The Halves And Half-Nots

The suits are girded, rallying the troops
with power-point displays at Monday’s meeting,
explaining how a five-year fiscal “oops”
resulted in last week’s employee bleeding.
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4.
A Year Of Sundays

A Year of Sundays

As if a breathing god,
the night exhales a glaze
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5.
Out Of Focus

A smudge of a man,
he trudged the blur between
a can-do attitude,
a cruel demeanor,
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6.
Vengeance Through A Parlor Window

The dust of day's detritus grays the room
as if the ashes of Pompeii
have blurred the atmosphere and smudged the gloom,
grinding the light away.
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7.
Mourning Dream

With spite,5: 30 in the morning came,
alarmed, and jarring to his drowsy senses,
bringing to bear the morning-force of blame
that punched and powered through internal fences
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8.
First Date

They walked the dark to dawn,
beneath a moon the hue of butter-crème,
traversing lawn to selfsame lawn,
their breaths cocooned in steam
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9.
Ashe To Snow

I drive up Ashe, past rows of shotgun shacks
that were erected thirty years ago
as subsidized apartments for the poor;
but now the rich want condos down to Snow,
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10.
Last Call

Her vodka-laced pronouncements stung
my eyes with breath of Russian fire—
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