NEW! From Flying With Red Haircrow Productions: Poetry can be many things & come in many forms, just like jazz: “Conejitos Amarillos” is a short energetic piece composed and performed by client and friend, the German jazz pianist Uli Lenz, combined with a poem by Red Haircrow. Inspired by Lenz’s thoughts on the song’s creation […]
Category: Poetry
Poem: “Siblings” & The Story Behind the Words
SIBLINGS A wall-eyed young girl in a party dress with carefully combed dark hair, brushed tears away from a narrow pretty face drawn with misery. Maybe the cause was a word spoken, or a series of them, a mentioned memory, person or place. Maybe it was all of those things for After giving a deliberate […]
Poem: Her Children
Her Children When you were the little boy in the white dress scattered with lilacs, which was no different than your pirate costume with the fake mustache, You pretended to faint when the young man from your favorite story appeared at the height of our field with the brilliance of the sun at […]
Poem: Spring Lament
Another year of days has passed, days now longer and which the sun truly warms, again branches blossom. Looking up into their pale glory I think to ask: has it been so long since last we walked together beneath greening trees and through cool grass still wet with morning dew? My heart knows the answer […]
Poem: January 26th by Red Haircrow
One of eight of my poems published in Sibling Rivalry Press’ Assaracus poetry magazine, Issue 09, (10 Jan 2013). JANUARY 26th The taste of tears, in a room, on a bed, through my fingers the light rises and falls: silvered blush to shadeless gray, the unspoken suffering bleeds the skin hue and drains away. […]
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