You didn’t call like you said you would, and I thought it wouldn’t bother me but it did. Time and again you said you loved me, that just thinking of me kept you from dying inside, for the world around you was already dead. And I loved you, too, yet it gave me a special […]
Category: Poetry
Poem: Old Woman
Old Woman I used to run the green fields with my dogs, but that was long ago, and I am a girl no more. I used to smile when the warriors rode by and hide my eyes with my hair, but now I am a girl no more. I danced the round dance with my […]
Poem: Hospital Garden At the 13th Hour & Commentary
Hospital Garden At The 13th Hour As the sun strikes the bell tower, until you see the ice in the central fountain, they almost make you think its Spring, those berries that look like white buds in their net of brown whippet branches. –Red Haircrow, 20 December 2011 Augustes Viktoria Klinikum, Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany, my […]
To M.M.H. (A Memorial Poem) by Red Haircrow
It’s always hard to lose a close friend. Someone you genuinely liked because they were a funny, interesting and intelligent person, especially who’d endured decades of a disease slowly killing them piece by piece, yet always had a quip if they could speak, or a special look in their eyes even when they couldn’t. A […]
Poem: The Red Pain of Distance by Red Haircrow
The Red Pain of Distance The quiver in your voice touches me and how I imagine your hands moving over the items of your desk, picking up little things and setting them aside without really seeing what they are. And I hear your smile and the hairs of your beard curve as you lick your […]
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