Uncategorized Poems

Some other poems with the Instagram aesthetic.

Things always happen

suddenly–
each new thing
a revolution.

Image: Trouvelot

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Jabo Starks has died

Jabo drummed for James:
the ultimate funk
of his drum
was that almost quiet
line, walking down
the street,
towards a beautiful,
unimaginable
conflagration.

Image: James Brown and Jabo Starks

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“I must confess it is
thanks to flagrant indiscretion…”

the delicious
fragrance
of
delicate
missteps
perfumes
dangerous afternoons
of
complicit
conversation.

Sandpaper aria

out behind the rooming house;
dusty shoes and a borrowed guitar
were orchestra enough
when you
let your broken heart
sing
to an audience of one.

Image: Found photograph

The city waits

full of strangers
Alone as the dark
on an electric streetcorner
I stand and listen.

Image: Brooklyn Bridge at Night, Andreas Feininger, 1948

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“Most reckless things are beautiful
in some way…”
Jonathan Safran Foer

In the atelier,
belief falls
away–
leaving
reckless
traces:
a scattered library
of
desire.

Image and quote: Christie’s Catalog, The Collection of R.B. Kitaj

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Smoke jumps

from rooftops,
leaping into a sky
filled with
the music
of unfinished conversations.

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Like a dandelion

I rise–
into a wind
which
shatters me.

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The waiting

is endless
in the dark
of your
forgetting.

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