Thanks to Editor David O'Nan for including a couple of poems (see below) in the just-released Issue 12 of Fevers of the Mind.
Whiff is giddy with Spring and Splashed Paint is winking at frustrations.
Both poems first appeared in my sixth collection, Patchy Ways (CyberWit, 2023).
Copies of the Fevers of the Mind Issue 12 which showcases poets from near and far are available at https://feversofthemind.com/2024/04/24/now-out-fevers-of-the-mind-issue-12-national-poetry-month-2024/
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Whiff
Open air is all my hearts
its beckon shirts my days
What wildly loves in me
grows in clumps
or tufts in rain or ditches
and never fails
This open air is my every kiss
as birds scoop straw that strays --
My out beyond
flies upside down
While side by side my simples wilt to grow
and homes of home are made
Largest is my love in open air
and steps to gathered chores
are what I am --
These sacred swoops of nows-to-then
and my being made of twine
of twirls or hope embraced
or dripping brims
of bucket-years that play
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Splashed Paint
Heaven in hell what a day it’s been --
a devil of slams and broken-down stuff
a shorted-out curse of popping volts
and cracks in bricks
that started gushing
Even more
that bam of a what the devil crash
and then oh then
how paint somehow
dear god of spills
got loose
Yes sir
a day of days when
I swear I give up
ended all of the misery for good
by stomping its hat
flat dead
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