Five Poems
by Terry Brinkman
Sonnet CC
One house of straw, one house of sticks and one of brick
Half mad alabaster silent articulated yellow sun
Like a cat to its claws, bones to a skeleton
She cries true love and carries a big stick
Lace fringe tide sheeting the lows of the arsenic
He said over his shoulder, polluter perfect simpleton
Steams of coffee ashes on her breath phenomenon
Sun shined on the Daisies merely emulated arithmetic
At the top of the hill Annies house was high
Steel skies pine fringed plateau Irish place
Knock-kneed death pew of the slain horrify
When the man went to sleep we saw Alice
Checker works of leaves on top of the Pie
Under lip fibers of tobacco fell in the Chalice
Sonnet C
Pale light of evening
Silence icily new
Treeless as Peru
Scrupulously neat and clean
Twilight-light sleeping king
Drinking dark coffee brew
Eyes gipsy-like blue
Trouser pocket ring
Gruff squire love-sick
Wine dark sea bay
Ghost light candlestick
Maladroit silk bouquet
Gemmed fingers stick
Low skimming blue-jay
Toppling masonry brick
Utter trivially today
No Friendly Sight
Squander this wallowing life
Fragment of your trance
No friendly sight
A pale quivering reflection
Fragment of your glance
Life that slips away
Tangles of sea weed
Now the calm returns
The blue sky darkens
Blue water is gone from her eyes
Fragment of your trace
Olivets Breeze
Chicago stockyard tunnels
Olivets breeze Indians
Steersman cowboys
Olivets breeze Indians
Chicago stockyard tunnels
Homestead Act 1862 under her lip
Granite county stockyards
Bitterroot Valley Bridge
Visit Yellowstone
Available year round Inn
Road schedule to make
Visit Yellowstones heartache
Mammoth to Norris playing Mandolin
The Days listed to win
Blue Night fall with snowflakes
Grant Lodge theirs cake
Start your trip, thick or thin
Gun Powder Gray Road sunset red
Weather Permitting unsung
Delays are possible if missed
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