Preop with Allen Ginsberg
horse and train
on a collision course
art stops time
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clouds
erasing a motorcycle
notice what you notice
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bare tree top
stark yellow bottom
observe what’s vivid
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wind swirls
red electric leaves
surprise mind
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doctor orders
double knee replacement
catch yourself thinking
(Lines in italics are quotes from Allen Ginsberg’s Mind Writing Slogans)
Blight
in the nightmare
the soil, rain soaked,
digging potatoes with a pitchfork
i pierce a toad’s burrow
invade a mouse’s cave
up-earth muck that reeks
a vulture's shadow
bigger than human
flicks over the garden
riot police tear-gas protestors
a mob of haters with raised-fists
force open the Whitehouse door
another shooting at a march
for Black Lives Matter
George Floyd suffocates again
we can’t breathe
COVID feasts
even hardy geraniums rot in standing water
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Date Published: May 1, 2021