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COLUMN
FIFTY-EIGHT, APRIL 1, 2001
(Copyright © 2001 Al Aronowitz)
FRENCH
QUARTER COFFEEHOUSE BLUES
Listen
to the rain run its laughter down the gutters.
I wanted this careless music and the flicker
of gas lamps above the damp flagstones.
The
twin doors swing open with a breath of wind.
Can he hear them unlock, high flying to the north?
Listen to the glide of rain like silk on wands of glass.
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* * *
Work
and Love
even as graves hollow the bones
they hold in the dark box
of shadow and soil, it happens
that
the sun warms abandoned seeds
and they swell through moist loam,
even as the widow opens her coat
and follows with her eyes a flight
of
birds, coming or going, high above
the countryside of absence and renewal.
This is the work of love that happens,
as we talk and talk, believe it or not. ##
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