Some drown in hydrolyzed clouds
Some fall with the rains’ wiping away
All progress made let fade into top soils
Wet bloody mud from trampling up the
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A POEM SPEAKS NATIVE:
Original 10 30 2009
A poem speaks native speak
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A granddaughter’s smile incites advantage
as she readies her nest for the nighttime story
she prepares each slice of magnetic universe
she tends to bottle warming and gifts;
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When poems write themselves
To save good eating for last
They refrigerate desserts but
Set them out a while to ponder
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INTELLIGENCE WITHOUT A MENTOR:
Original 10 03 2010
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We meet to drive international speedways
To the beach’s decorative catch bands of
Running waters -coastal borders
Rolling in sand’s broad sunlight –faded
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On the runners’s track around Charles Drew field
hung images of nakedness above counter walls that
Bars display instant atmosphere drew off to color
The brew a coffee cream in sight of Baldwin Hall
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When I have reach outside
this eye to touch the other
side of sky
glory will the hope pray I
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Coltrane reincarnate in sound chasses in surfer’s dreams
transfigures to an emperor butterfly leaving the body,
ancestral ebullient blood running, an afterward-ness sound
blowing through seashells lifts being onto wings that move
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God wept the seas we walk around
lands of continent man divide the charity
the sea’s covers spread over naked kingdoms
like condoms stretched over revived seed
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