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When the Watch Stopped/7:17pm

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Sticky mouths are free from care,
digesting frozen fries and beer
before they bellow like a bear
for the team that they hold dear.

Digesting frozen fries and beer
while blazing blue and vivid white
for the team that they hold dear
beneath a sun so bold and bright.

While blazing blue and vivid white
sweat slides down from nose to chin,
beneath a sun so bold and bright
hoping that their Yanks will win.

Sweat slides down from nose to chin,
before they bellow like a bear.
Hoping that their Yanks will win,
sticky mouths are free from care.

 

When the Watch Stopped_7_17

Cinquain/IX

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his face
comes a calling
at this warm woeful place,
to give  me a gruff and galling
mauling

 

 

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Cinquain/IX was inspired by this photograph of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier taken by John Shearer for LIFE magazine in 1971  before “The Fight of the Century”, in which Ali lost the heavyweight title to Frazier.  I have plans to write an essay about this image and its relation to self-inflicted psychological warfare when time permits.

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비밀이 많다/Many Secrets

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마음은 창호지처럼…
빛은 그것을 통해 자유롭게 흐르지만 – 속을 들여다 볼 수 없다
우리 문들뒤에 비밀이 많다

the heart is like shoji paper…
light flows freely through it – but you cannot see inside
behind our doors there are many secrets

 

챃호지

 

image credit: www.ufokim.com

Cinquain/X

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this dust
is an offense
which manifestly must
be uprooted with an intense
defense

 

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My maternal grandmother was a skilled miniaturist who painstakingly created a beautiful collection of small fascinating rooms. This short poem was inspired by her “Victorian Parlour.”

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