Colm Flanagan Poems

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1.
I Want To Be Billy Collins

And live in the mornings
While the seasons project themselves
On to the panes of Billy’s windows.
I want to walk downstairs
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2.
Your Love

If your love was the rainfall
I’d fling my umbrella,
Kick off my galoshes
And sail my sow ester
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3.
Hail O Humble Hush Puppy

Thou truly art a prince amongst pavement prowlers
The duke of the display rack
The archbishop of affordability.
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4.
Jfk To Mm

O Marilyn Marilyn
Be my movie star
My honey sweet
Happy birthday singer.
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5.
French Heat

Spilling out like a rug,
the morning scatters amongst
the scrub of La Martiniere.
Bleaching each blade,
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6.
Unpop Culture

I’ll tell ya wadda want
Wadda really really want.

I wanna’ play the poet
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7.
Girardiere

Is it the wind on your limbs like warm laundered linen,
the fields of corn that crowds and wave,
or the bubble and simmer of the children’s voices-
above the hush and swish of the tree top breeze?
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8.
A Tuscan Day On A Tuscan Hill

Before dawn and all is still,
More motionless against the slow film
of the thin clouded sky.
A dog bark from the valley below
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9.
Your Smile

Your brightening smile is all I ask
Whenever I return to you.
There is no darkness that can mask
Your brightening smile, it’s all I ask.
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10.
Jack And Aggie

In the kitchen
he does not see
his wife crouched
in her creased leather chair,
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