A few recent poems.

Shadorma 357

plenty tart
and full of friction
she is no
boilerplate
suggestible mannequin
wearing a taut smile

8/8/21

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Kitchen Song

The cooks leaning over their stoves
I’ll make you bad pancakes, sang the short guy
I’l smear butter in your hair.
Let me prove to you how much I love you
how much I really care.
The tall fellow ran a big metal spoon
along the row of utensils on hooks above the counter.
The small thin woman rang the side of a metal bowl
with her wedding ring.The rhythm was good.
The short guy smiled. The pancakes sizzled on the grill.

8/11/21

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Shadorma 358

the rabbit
could sit in the palm
of my hand
but he won’t
of course. Too young to know much
but this, yes, he knows.

8/13/21