Blackbirdan online journal of literature and the artsSpring 2019  Vol. 18 No. 1
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the dream is crying and running
dressed in the wind

I thought barefoot

like a color

do you feel my hands upon your face?

the shore also has a dream
the waves

another

they are your hands too
the swaying

motion of the skyline
above the falls

fragments of red brick and translucent

embers
inside my heart

a skeleton
shaves with an electric

razor

my mouth wet paper

the rain

without
getting away

the rain like leaves
the lemony

scent of hands
near me

in bitter or soft voice

like an embrace

or face  

From Strays by Ralph Angel. Reprinted with permissions from Foundling Press.


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