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Poetry

Poetry: Collectibles

July 31, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne Leave a Comment

Collectibles

at least he remembered
the salt-sprayed breeze
on their patio in Red Bank
the patio with the pistachio green
umbrella, talking about the sailboats
and sipping raspberry-peach iced tea
wondering out loud…how a sunset
could look so much like candle wax
melting on the floor of an old attic
a few drops of citrus oil was all it took

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Poetry: The Sturgeon

July 24, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne Leave a Comment

The Sturgeon

The mechanics of suffering
is not so daunting to understand
it hurts for a while-
gums and bellies pierced by
an unseen passion… and then it is done
the savory-sweet, cherry cough syrup scent
of death dries and disappears, leaving
only impressions in the ample depth of sand

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Poetry: Creation

July 17, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne Leave a Comment

Creation

Long after the rules of magic,
a lush smoke of pipe tobacco
rises from the dried leaves,
prayers cast in the black and oily birth light.

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Poetry: Silence

July 10, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne Leave a Comment

Silence

silence is the power
of rivers to tell a new
story over and over
again until it is ancient,
soft, and revolutionary.

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Poetry: Wild Turkey

July 3, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne Leave a Comment

Wild Turkey

My father was one who best understood
the shy verse of sawdust and steel.

When he did share, after aged bourbon
by the charred pepper glow of campfire,

his words would bring dryness to the dark,

More than he knew, I saw how his words had shapes,

how they circled the the field meadows,
as turkey vultures do after a long, pleasing hunt.

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Poetry: Lake Flower

June 26, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne Leave a Comment

Lake Flower

here morning opens
as a lotus petal

all at once
in all directions

under the kind pressure
of twilight

a translucent
blue topaz feeling

disappearing into
an ancient softness

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Poetry: Stormy Night

June 19, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne Leave a Comment

Stormy Night

There is a loneliness to hail drops
on a tin-roofed cabin.

The woods and flowers and secrets of
mountains are lonely.

So are the trails, ponds, and bridges;
the vanished sources looking for a beginning.

Dripping drops a million years in the making.
Falling asleep in the wounded soil of dreams.

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Poetry: Reciprocity

June 12, 2021 by Edward Zahniser 3 Comments

Reciprocity

Walking the paved path atop the embankment
leading down to the long-term-care facility,
I recall how poet William Stafford stopped
his car to roll a dead deer off the highway,
down into the canyon below, out of simple
respect for this other blood, in witness to our
reciprocity with the more-than-human world.

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Poetry: Altostratus

June 5, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne Leave a Comment

Altostratus

Pressure is in our breath.

Winds in the north veer to the right,
while those to the south veer to the left,

as the light emitted from the sun, turns our
windmills and guides our sailboats.

Just as an airplane stays aloft due to
differing air densities on each side of its wings,
and the ocean of air moves like oceans do.

Evaporating clouds. Air bubbles in the sea.

And didn’t you know that sunsets are merely
filtered rays of red passing through the atmosphere?

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Poetry: A Mountain Prayer

May 29, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne 2 Comments

A Mountain Prayer

I kneel so that I may remember this
without words, this mountain without
a wasted breath speaks and I want to
remember the way I felt listened to.

So I close my eyes and breathe in the aroma

I smell peeled apple and peppermint, moss
and dried roses, orange blossom water in my throat
and I taste the words of the mountain, a few drops
that make me swirl in wild silence

the mountain is calm, always
in the way it notices the offerings of mortals
it stands untouched, in my arms
as a hay field holds the Sun’s amber light.

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