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Pennies for Our Braids
In an amber moon When we found each otherYour hand ungreedyTemperate Your smell of soot And the long road You touched me So gentleSofter Than my ownHidden feathers I knew then that love Could…
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Mamma Iris
I have never been prettySomething you would want To look at for long In market places, trading posts and bazaars I have made old men cough, children squintAnd their aunties made them wear Their…
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Fervent Aperture
This Where the Red tail and Kite feed wellAnd the Owl’s cough is intricate and variedWe step around it quietly still seeing Still hearing the field mice scurry within ghost. Grasses burn ripe…
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Loose The Passport
Are you open to possibilities? Do you resemble your passport photo? Do you care and how important is it/ has it been that you have a place to stay when you left your country…
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Shelter
Come wayward rover Peaked high and upon each finger Are candles were vows once hung They run for cover Do not suffer, can’t you hear that thunder Because I once spoke that language For…
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Rollin’
I am crashing into Utahsquinting in the sunthe water feels goodin the heat It is far from anywhereI need to beLaying very stillI am happy to be here It is good to beFarfrom ports…
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Medicine Way
With the Badger Slink low, low I get down into The burnt orange Ochre grass of Snake Back Ridge Rosehips sour floatingWith cedar in my brew And I drink deeply Smudge bowl Caught the…
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Jah Kaba
Location: Somewhere on Bayou Teche, Louisiana Education, Redemption They called him Jah Kaba from Maurice Parish poppin jellybeans instead valium now- he kept his anxiety at bay, The bayous were warm and reminded him…
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sweet and fine where i lay
dig shallow where the kudzu chokes and ramblespick quick the cuckoo banjo pick it sweet and fine i’m in my winding sheetlay me downin the lazy dawndirty mamma’s and joescome alongi’m dead and gone…
Pretty Thunder Poetry 