kemaeljo

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  September 2022     2 months ago

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Wanderer's Ditty

Upon the road knotted with knee hollies green
and bitterest rot of the husbandman's vine,
where patch-thick in the trousers and bitterly green
I went stumbling for starflower and time.

"A bundle for your back and tread until noon,"
asks the...

by Kemael Johnson

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A City and a Tower

My name was Araceli in the evening
when we danced, darkness against the dark,
and he joked about erecting
spiraled towers from the dirt.
“We will be grass in the morning,” he said,
“but now we are weeds.”
And I whispered, “Come on, boy,...

by Kemael Johnson

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I like the enticing nature of the narrator. Oddly enough, I read this poem as if the narrator were the poem itself, or a painting, and the “mark upon my flesh” was a signature on the page or a canvas.

“Make me beautiful and contemplate your work.” I love this line.
 

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I like the descriptiveness of this poem. I can hear its sounds and almost touch its scenery, as if I lived there, or else dreamed of it.

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