r james sterzinger
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Through the brightness of black bows
Through the avenues of bright flowers
Through alleys of garbage day trash cans
I walked my dog through the late night.
...
It is
Twenty-two below zero
Has been for two days.
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I.
When did my thirst for anything
Beautiful, collapse
Turn dry and cynical?
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I have a bitterness that runs
Deep. when Jesus cursed
The fig tree, it
Gave nothing sweet.
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what will i do when i find out later on
that the poetry
that keeps me
holding on
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I'd Like to Fall in Love One More Time
I'd like to fall
In love, one more time.
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Everything for granted taken
never considering a sparrows
fall. in a world too busy too fast
for consideration we've lost
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There are days when I
like my blue-eyed boy
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This dark night is
A night for brooding
And I will brood
As I look at the clouds
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what force mitigates these changes
what Vesuvian energy burns
the year's days away then
snips away the threads
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when the cold comes
under the door
when fear wraps around you
hang on to the hope
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this night
this terrible dark night
I walked alone into the kitchen
turn on the light. From the hole
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Walking with her through Avenue Champs E'lysees'
Her long blood red scarf taken by the breeze.
A ragged beggar stops us
From his soiled pocket he offers to sell
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While Watching the Birds Fly South
for W. S. Merwin
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every woman
a rosary bead
all the same
yet all the different prayer
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r james sterzinger Biography
English major dropout. Writing off and on for 30yrs. bibliophile. Earliest influence was Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg. Eventually wandered into Beat and Li Po- Han Shan territory. Now I am back to Robert Frost and poets like Robert Lowell and Frederick Seidel, and Bill Holm, and Jim Harrison. as well as the poetry of Reynolds Price, who is my favorite writer, though my style is more Bukowski rather than anyone else. I also am a great lover of Ezra Pounds's work as well as Pasternak and other Russian poets. Also I think that Jane Kenyon is one of the greatest poets ever. Write now I am doing readings as well as looking to publish a chap book. the 'M' and 'SP' to whom many of my poems are dedicated takes on the roles of muse and friend. Favorite poems: Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket, Having it out with Melancholy, Take Something Like a Star. the Cantos, and Ash Wednesday and all of Joseph Brodsky's Christmas poems.)
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Dark Corners...For Audre Lorde
Through the brightness of black bows
Through the avenues of bright flowers
Through alleys of garbage day trash cans
I walked my dog through the late night.
Lately, I go through places and neighborhoods
I shouldn't go through late at night
They run kitty- corner to where I use to walk
Well lit areas where inspiration for good poems came.
Now I prefer dark corners, places I cannot see
Places, dark as pitch and sticky with inspirations
Alleys with shot out street lamps
Pop can broken beer bottles
That may or may not shine in the moon light
That may or may not reflect the stars.
Except for one Keatsian poem and another by Frost
I no longer request the stars
I no longer wish for other night lights for companionship
I prefer the dark corners of alleys and the edges
Of streets. Like the hems of a witches black gown
Or the robes of the reaper who will soon
Catch up with me and my days.
Someday all that will be left of me
Will be left over poems that no one will read
And all the dark corners I walk down now
Comfortably holding me in the are of my deepest of sleeps
Waiting for a resurrection that may take forever to come.
When that resurrection comes
I won't need those dark corners anymore
I will let them go
Then my eyes adjust to the light
With all the others waiting with me side by side
With any luck it will seem like a day.
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Thankful to you for your poem Tribute to the late Audre Lorde. Fantastic poem.Have you published that Chapbook?
r James is a good guy, I'm married to him thanks 4 reading his stuff :)
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I cite from your BIO: to publish a chap book. the 'M' and 'SP' to whom many of my poems are dedicated takes on the roles of muse and friend. Favorite poems: Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket, HAVE you publishe that?