The FAB&PP Poem of the Month for January 1996
| like my father like the yellow man frustration leads me to the window I draw the curtain look outside and try to deal with things I cannot know or help I seek the backyard landscape, the neighbor’s drive, the same streets, the angled views I know to wash the rage but not with reason |
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emptiness an unanguished alternative to the interior world the banal exterior insulated view no noise no voice just the frame, the birds hopping, the animal footprints in the snow (no shoes) or other telltales of life still life at the sill March 21, 1993 revised December 25, 1995 |