A tropical storm
Emanating colors only natives understand
Amalgamating clouds warn
Dawn struggles to break
It fails on this day
Proving Emerald skies
Are not Oz
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I went to bed warmed by rag wool socks, lulled into hoped for dreams from my creative day. Expected sparks for word play turned into the horrific noise of daytime where children were targets for vile egos.
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Raised in sepia, imagine when I saw color.
It brought eternal memories
Inspiring me to seek and use it in every form.
A brilliant white rose, a simple lavender ribbon. The seeds of an ever evolving palette, used to brighten blank canvas.
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Be ready at 7:00. Wear the dress I bought for you. Leave your hair down.
Don’t ask where we are going. I have a plan. Be ready.
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Look at me
I dare you
Even a philistine
Cannot deny my aura
My direct commanding eyes
If you only see the breast
You’ve never noticed
The depth of a woman.
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Age difference
Taken too early, Iva & Ada
In a queue at pearly gates
Ida, 10, is ecstatic
Heaven with her sister
What could be better?
Ada carries enforced worldliness
She wonders how many
Have bought their way in.
Her only hope, he isn’t dead yet.
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Notice the unusual bodice
It’s called a crumb catcher
Crumbs come in many forms
Including the tuxedoed.
The woman lifts her organza
To flee polite predation.
An amuse bouche to him
An assault to her.
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She refuses
She won’t stay
She questions
She pushes
She steps into the fray
You try to
Quell
Threaten
Enflame
Stone
Drown
Burn
She endures
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The innocent revered
Yet untouched
Pristine dress
No personality
She hasn’t been allowed
To pick her sins.
Bad girls have
They’re most wanted
In theory only
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Prim in pink
Ladylike
Socially compliant
Red unapologetic
Leans back, not luring
Pink cannot turn away
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A pacifying hand
Belying experience
A chair
A minuscule defense
He lunges
She swings
He falls
She runs
But where?
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Are you the voyeur or the voyee?
You draw back the foliage, seeking what?
You’re surprised.
You expected vulnerability,
Not judgement.
Nothing more threatening than -
A self assured young woman.
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Thrusting flowers
Doesn’t provide
Uninvited access
Trespass elsewhere.
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The broad chest, rippling arms, callused hands, a body built by labor. Within lies the soul of a poet denied education, a boy longing for words but shaped for trade. An accident of birth in time & family shuttered his delicacy in sinew.
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White men in suits
Prosperous
Tailored
Successful
Built on Foundations
Of Slavery and Immigration
Smug
Self-Assured
In Denial.
History will prevail.
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Come spring a peony bloom is as pristine as a cotillion debutante. Come June she is as frowsy as a retired call girl.
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Your color arrests my eyes
You nestle on my bare toes
With intent, but why?
Like all else
I have no answers.
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Dangled like a rag doll my Mary Janes threaten to swallow my socks.
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Urban Drying Rack
Arms as delicate as a wall of spinsters at a chuch dance.
Bedecked in aged lace
Too dry to step out.
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Fog clearing
Power radiating
Go on
We dare you
You’re not the only one
We want to hang out to dry.
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A masterful white bloom radiating unearned praise on the white master.
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Come spring a peony bloom is as pristine as a cotillion deb. Come June she is as frowsy as a veteran hooker.
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The size of fine bond paper. Illuminated with light and depth. The pastels float, anchored by deep red, elegant enough to be a doyenne’s shocking, velvet dress in a Sargent.
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I plow through
Carrying my head
In my hands.
It betrayed me
Never in balance
With my heart.
Grasped tight to my chest
Like a dead child.
Now unable to look back
It can never say
I told you so.
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GAZA
Homeland eradicated
Fat cats looming
Vultures swarming
Trying to hide glee
A child survives in a photo
Her home gone
Siblings dead
Parents eliminated
Hope the only remaining prey.
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Glamor flashback. Studio 54, the Met.
Maplethorpe and Sondheim
Skirt too short
Heart too open
Vibrancy everything.
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Beautiful George announced his cell count. The statistics denied his seeming health. He wanted us to believe that he was proof, living proof, no need to be frightened by dangerously low numbers. The funerals began.
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