Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Seven Songs of the Sparrow

 First draft and the sequencing may change.


The Seven Songs of the Sparrow

(a Blues in haiku for Yusef)


one fingerprint

on the side of a pail

blackberry moon 


the Frosty Twins

bleeding Bogalusa blues

red bird on a branch 


running from it

a boy finds his name

in smoky water 


the missing keys

somehow opening a door

Longhair’s lesson 


a Bloomington fog’s

idea of ancestry

ether on a ridge 


burning beyond

the bonewheel factory

the Southern Cross


fifty-eight thousand

grunts in black granite

blood moon


This is where I ended up—



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