I read these poems first in order, then backwards, and also randomly. Each poem exists on its own merit, as a breath in time. The breaths come faster, or more slowly, depending on the subject matter, and depending on the order in which they are read. It’s almost a meditation, a rocking chair, representing theContinue reading “Lori D. Roadhouse reviews Debra Black’s “love, lust, existence and other ephemeral things””
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2 poems by Debra Black
Boketto: The Act of Gazing Into the Distance tap-dancing into the sea, gazing into and between the here and there, the formless formlessness, the never-ending horizon, edgeless perfection of nothing and everything, perfect emptiness. floating into the timeless sky graced by a single lotus, white translucent pearls in the sky. Wabi Sabi: Beauty in theContinue reading “2 poems by Debra Black”
2 poems by Debra Black
a bad case of the asymmetrical blues or how to survive a pandemic a cracking, thrumming, vibrating, anxious heart beating, rising, throttling, digging deeper into paranoia, drifting into illness, echoes around the world. body counts, pieces of humanity strewn across the sky, hidden in the Duomo tattered and weary, the end of the world. theContinue reading “2 poems by Debra Black”
2 Poems by Debra Black
an incalculable loss grief tumbles out of me like water spiraling, bubbling, weaving, washing over pebbles in a river bed, eroding the land and me until all that is left are enervated neurons lost in a dance of discomfort, a dance with the dead — who are never really gone, nor never really here.Continue reading “2 Poems by Debra Black”
The Autumnal Series. Poems by Debra Black
The Autumnal Series #1 ten thousand joys and sorrows, a single silver leaf under the paperly sky. beloved, befriended, then gone, gone, gone. #2 ten thousand sorrows and joys, the slatish grey moon, the silvery dusk settles in, my heart leaps into emptiness, beingness, the suchness of such. beloved, befriended, then gone, gone, gone. #3Continue reading “The Autumnal Series. Poems by Debra Black”
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