Tag: love
member name: Maura Alia Badji
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July 24, 2006 07:39 AM EDT --
A poetic comparison
...and the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers,
is always the first to be touched by the thorns.
Thomas Moore
But he that dares not grasp the thorn
should never . . .
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June 21, 2006 01:54 AM EDT --
Brotherlove
Sorry I had to be the one
to escort you past
that early signpost of manhood:
The Buying of the Jock.
What guy wants his sister along
when his balls hang in the balance? . . .
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June 26, 2006 02:21 AM EDT --
Buffalo-bound
Walking through the Albright-Knox
Museum-- waking sleeper in moving
dream picks up the trail left
thirty years before: I find my way,
track childhood's promises. . . .
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July 03, 2006 08:57 PM EDT --
At Cosmo's Diner
What you gonna do with your life?
the man in the all-night diner asked me.
Gonna go to art school or be somebody's wife?
He had tears tattooed under his eyes when he . . .
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July 06, 2006 10:45 PM EDT --
Calling Angels
The graveyard glowed
that night, some lost planet
in the moonlight.
Not so strange a place
for tenderness or love. Slow
we walked, no words between us.
Filled the gaps . . .
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June 30, 2006 09:19 PM EDT --
Submarine Blues, International House, Mistaken Identity
My stubborn hair has grown longer since you left for sea;
At night I read the thin blue letters you send to me.
Downstairs Ben . . .
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July 04, 2006 06:46 AM EDT --
Addiction & Subtraction
for Mateo and Jannala
Trap
wrapped layers
prepared
packaged
Soft escape
No landings
continuing . . .
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June 26, 2006 02:14 AM EDT --
Breakfast
My grandfather's hands, staniatata's hands-- tin-smith's hands,are three times the size of mine. His hands circle the brown and tan mug of sweet black coffee he drinks all day. In . . .
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June 21, 2006 01:45 AM EDT --
Buona Seda, Bedda
During the last summer of her life
I watch my grandmother undress
by the light of a holy candle,
disrobe before Jesus, His merciful eyes,
His Sacred Heart unchanged, . . .
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July 04, 2006 12:45 PM EDT --
Douglas
In your James Dean jacket
so self-contained,
you'd ignite, in white heat
if I rubbed against you.
We're a match. I'm watching a movie,
watching you, again,
watching you . . .
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July 05, 2006 05:50 AM EDT --
Late Valentine
I have been waiting for you to break me
open, a blossom unbound from tight bud.
I have been waiting, not placidly, not
lazily; I have watered and tilled in your absence . . .
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July 05, 2006 06:52 AM EDT --
The Meek Shall Inherit
Thick overcoat of talcum
dusts half-used jars--
face creme, perfume,
cheap and rare,
infinity of hair treatments--
dry, normal, damaged. I survey
damp . . .
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July 08, 2006 11:49 PM EDT --
Rememory
Afterwards,
there were months spent
scraping myself clean
against solid rock,
baring bone,
muscle, blood, stone.
Until I learned
I didn't have to hurt
to get better, that . . .
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July 02, 2006 10:13 AM EDT --
Paper boat
loaned by moon
that lazy shark pilot Catastrophe averted--
Johnny Nervebundle Johnny DangerMoney Johnny
Swinghat
Johnny-I-wore-a-dress-for-you-and-this-is-what-I-get? . . .
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July 04, 2006 11:53 AM EDT --
Alia
My middle name
is a town in Sicily
I found on a National
Geographic map, not far
from Piazzo Cangilosi. So close
to my grandfather's name--Congilosi,
meaning with jealousy. Paired . . .
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July 02, 2006 10:23 AM EDT --
Benediction
All day I snap fresh sheets
over antique beds, carry
cart-loads of snowy towels still
warm from the basement laundry,
stop long enough to catch
breeze from a window above
Mohonk . . .
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July 05, 2006 07:09 AM EDT --
Mona, Swan's Wing
As you speak, parting the silence
you wear wrapped round yourself like the black shawl of your hair
I can see you then: youngest of nine daughters, nine sisters
nine swans. . . .
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