tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16653630567931089322024-02-08T03:34:35.448-08:00Bridges"first snow
falling
on the half-finished bridge"
-Bashō (tr. by Robert Haas)Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-8215996561002153562016-11-03T16:29:00.003-07:002016-11-03T16:36:24.576-07:00Traveling Uptown on the D Train<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4 step on <br />
3 adults and 1 child</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Their accent belies</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">their American attire</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Africa / they once called home</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is Sunday afternoon / they<br />
appear to be coming from church</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They fill the empty seats<br />
beside me</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rhythms and syntaxes fall</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">from their lips / African hieroglyphics </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">tapping smooth syncopated beats on my ear </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">drums, but I cannot discern them</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our chocolate hue silently<br />
testifies of a history interrupted / broken brother<br />
hoods / and the estrangement of sisters…</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My American attire belies my full lineage<br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although we sit side by side</span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
I am / we are / separated still by an ocean</span></span></div>
Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-6974765967742702432016-03-17T05:08:00.000-07:002016-03-22T07:27:43.087-07:00Lotus Rising (UPDATED)<div style="text-align: center;">
I</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
will play big and bold in the world;</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
will play on my terms.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
will play loud in the world;</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
will play intelligently without apology.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Forever</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
my enormous feet will change landscapes.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Forever</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
my hands will <i>land</i>mark the spots where</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I've dug, and dreams unimaginable will adorn </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
my fingers, like diamonds, and crown my head. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Love will guide me, arm-in-arm, to that promised land where</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
my name is <i>Sheba</i>, and all sing </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
my praises...</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Forever</div>
Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-83202144609583584682015-08-23T06:27:00.000-07:002016-08-29T17:43:07.936-07:00Soul Reclamation <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In an empty room </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">within an empty house,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>stands a figure: my Persephone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A feast of colors blooms arounds Her.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre;"> /</span></div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I enter at the back, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">through </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Her kitchen's door--</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">it's unlocked!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Her back faces me. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Her dress is </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">white, terry-textured and embroidered in</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> indigo blue; softly it kisses the floor. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Her back slowly turns to the left, </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Her shoulders too, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and Her eyes welcome mine…</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> \</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I am famished, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">famished from enduring Her enduring </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> absence and barren from our forced </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">separation. But I am not too late:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Her belly grows...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and we are still young.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>/</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> ... I approach Her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Her face is mine;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> weariness warmed with relief and desire </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> pour from Her eyes and fill us both...</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> My arms embrace Her, Her arms embrace me</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and gently we rock from side to side,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>turning in a circle…</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-4967555721008995462015-04-30T06:40:00.002-07:002016-03-23T13:59:50.972-07:00REPOST: Friendship for SaleFriendship for sale! Friendship for sale!<br />
Friendship for sale! Friendship for sale!<br />
<br />
My collection of friends, or<br />
semi-friends, or never-were-my-friends, <br />
friends...<br />
<br />
are available for sale.<br />
<br />
My collection of friends:<br />
deceiving friends, lying friends, back-biting friends, spying friends, always mocking friends, and never letting me live friends. Always parenting me friends, jealous competitive friends, always gotta win friends, take the fun out of fun friends, judgmental friends, controlling, juckin'-n-jivin' friends. Talking behind your back friends, never calling me back friends, laughing at your expense friends, always talking but never listening friends, always right never wrong friends, over bearing and pushy friends, overstepping their bounds friends, unapologetic friends, complaining friends, using me for their own good friends, agenda-seeking friends...<br />
<br />
are available for sale.<br />
<br />
...loud and obnoxious friends, disrespectful friends,foul-mouth and ungrateful friends;<br />
always-have-to-be-the-center-of-attention friends, codependent friends, provoking friends, unloving friends, low self-esteem friends, low financial means friends, going nowhere friends, extreme friends, unbelieving friends, two-timing friends, childish friends, arrogant friends, greedy friends, spoiled friends, nobody’s friend friends.<br />
<br />
are all available for sale.<br />
<br />
I am moving out of the neighborhood.Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-23137936190539610852013-07-04T07:37:00.000-07:002014-04-20T17:19:42.648-07:00Grand Mother Wood LandToday (July 4, 2013) is the 19th anniversary of my grandmother's death. In celebration of her I am posting <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmbtGOBf1EsQUUwUzNydTY3ck0/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Grand Mother Wood Land</a>. EnjoyMechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-43767717713635409402013-06-26T02:09:00.002-07:002015-10-18T07:19:54.621-07:00MB's "The Gardener" is Featured on Bentlily's My poem <em>The Gardener</em> is featured <a href="http://bentlily.com/guest/chandra-roxanne/" target="_blank">here</a> on Bentlily.com<br />
<br />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 10px; min-height: 13px;">
<b>**UPDATED (2015)**</b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">He humbled himself:<br />
knelt his desire at the foot of his flower's bed,<br />
like a penitent sinner. He saw her over</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">whelmed with green and understood her</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">hard earth would<i> </i>soften by offering a little water.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stretched across her wooden frame, using bare-skinned hands, </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">he skillfully plucked each weed suffocating his garden...<br />Between fore-finger-and-thumb tips he caressed each<br />
hole carved into her withering leaves and determined in his<br />
heart to exterminate the devouring creatures.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">He remembered to replenish the soil.</span></i></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the side, he unwound the hose attached to the house </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and unstopped the faucet:</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">water-consumed-drought-jumping-insider-dark-belly,<br />
resurrecting roots giving up the ghost.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Exhausted and dewed, <br />he rested awhile...Many nights he</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">communed beneath the stars, savoring </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Moonflower, Honeysuckle, Corn Poppy, Tiger Lily, and Sunflower… </span></div>
<br />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">He ate and was satisfied.</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-80944485740854522832013-06-18T17:56:00.000-07:002013-07-05T17:10:28.771-07:00Longingto wrap you around me<br />
like a hand-made quilt,<br />
to feel your breath<br />
cradling my neck, and<br />
the rise<br />
and fall<br />
and rise<br />
and fall<br />
of your chest...<br />
<br />
Longing to feel you<br />
seeing me, smiling at me,<br />
feeding me (with your<br />
kisses), caressing me,<br />
holding me—don't let me go...<br />
<br />
Longing to awake<br />
to the sound of<br />
your arms whispering,<br />
<em>you are mine</em>...Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-60510692206306310822013-05-17T14:23:00.000-07:002013-05-17T14:28:19.815-07:00Nameless My poem <em>Nameless</em> is featured <a href="http://wp.me/p11rr6-1gu" target="_blank">here </a>: Theresa Ruth Howard's blog <em>my Body, my Image</em>. EnjoyMechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-24202098825954091342013-04-02T02:36:00.000-07:002014-09-11T12:13:24.176-07:00Longing (Part II)<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The day crashes<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">through the window.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Searing light slices<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">through our velvet<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">darkness, and the <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">warmth of our<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">embrace, and the<br />solace tucked between<br />our conjoined limbs,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-small; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">and the comfort of our <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">solitude, <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">f</span>orcing<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">our intertwined bodies<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">to peel apart. I try <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">to remain glued to you <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">forever, but forever <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">is now gone...<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span>Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-38984739803622840002013-03-01T03:48:00.001-08:002013-06-24T06:20:48.339-07:00Eaglet<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The time has come…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">mamma eagle,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">stands mid</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">air, wings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">flapping, eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">fixating but</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">coaxing, pleading </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">her eagle-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">to-be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">to step</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">beyond the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">familiar nest:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">to trust</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">her, to</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">surrender to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">the air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Moments pass…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">the eaglet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">gets the</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">message and</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">steps forward,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">trembling, on</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">to the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">bristled edge,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">lays it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">self on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">top the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">wind—wings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">stretched long</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">and wide—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">and discovers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">its strength</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">to fly.</span></div>
Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-27515719480751605002013-02-16T14:53:00.000-08:002013-05-17T14:49:56.187-07:00Sam<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Gangly and lengthy—<br />
She knew from a young<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
age She was different: <br />
that She would travel<br />
a different lover’s lane <br />
than Her Mother. Her <br />
Mother had one. She <br />
would have none. When <br />
She told Her Mother, <br />
it was this dampened<br />
dream She felt in Her<br />
Mother’s (subtle) <br />disappointment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">…She wobbles <br />
now in jean shorts,<br />
cut-off- at-the-knee, <br />
and combat boots—<br />
the ones She wore<br />
that disappointing<br />
day; her hair: still <br />
cropped short and <br />
boylike; her face: <br />
young and freshly <br />
plumped; her frame:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><br />
lengthy, but plush—her <br />
stomach...grows: a favor for <br />
a friend whose womb is closed.</span></div>
Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-32369941962337461352013-01-08T04:54:00.001-08:002013-07-08T17:27:53.038-07:00New Haven, Connecticut (Circa 2012):<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A freshly brewed cup of coffee<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slightly organic, slightly not;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
An awkward pre-pubescent,<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gangly and pimpled faced,<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>seeking its own identity under <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the eye of The Old Parent;<br />
<br />
An unstirred batter of Gothic charm<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and modern-day chic;<br />
<br />
Suits and ties and jeans and t-shirts<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cars and bikes and buses, <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trains and shuttles;<br />
<br />
A clash of old hierarchy and new-age liberalism;<br /><br />
A slightly-sharp jazz quintet still finding its melodic line;<br /><br />
A briary bird’s nest, nestled betwixt New York and Boston;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A new Neapolitan scoop of multiculturalism; </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">A diverse delicatessen;</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A half-penned, unopened book;</span>
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">An unfinished nook;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
A ...</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(to be continued)</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></span>Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-61136949862135232982012-12-01T15:38:00.000-08:002013-02-16T15:00:05.517-08:00The Art of Nothingness...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-16311727390397853772012-11-06T06:13:00.002-08:002013-02-16T15:04:09.194-08:00Faith<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Under<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>a steel white blanket,<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>a decrepitly barren tree<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>arcs its arthritic limbs<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">upward<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>in childlike abandonment<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>waiting—patiently—<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for spring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-20751118934881949962012-10-02T17:54:00.003-07:002014-05-12T13:18:04.147-07:00Confidence<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">A red-feathered,<br />
black-chested bird<br />
stands poised on a<br />
pale-yellow picket fence.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Rain beats the<br />
earth senseless.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The bird remains<br />
poised: puffing<br />
its chest, arching<br />
its back.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span>Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-3942642814553107772012-07-12T17:52:00.001-07:002012-10-02T18:04:50.006-07:002 Boys on a Stoop<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hormones <br />
brought them <br />
here: to fatherhood.<br />
…too young to drink, or<br />
go to college,<br />
or vote…<br />
both their present- <br />
day & their futures<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
scream from the<br />
playpen beside them:<br />
unhappy, unsatisfied, and<br />
unfulfilled… <br />
they sit & listen, unsure<br />
how to answer the call…</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
</span></span></span><br />Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-44990389548574472632012-06-24T12:54:00.002-07:002012-10-22T10:55:29.163-07:00Under the Stage Lights<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I can’t breathe!<br />
Some vine has snaked its way<br />
up my throat from my belly below;<br />
it lays heavy on my tongue.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I’ve been here
before:<br />
abandoned by Confidence<br />
in a last-minute ambush.<br />
My heart punches mercilessly.<br />
I fear it will break through, and flop, <br />
like a fish, on the wooden floor.<br />
My trembling hands clench together for<br />
comfort, but find none.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">At last I open
my mouth to speak.<br />
Out falls dead leaves.<br />
The wobble in my voice is not vibrato;<br />
nothing operatic unfolds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><em>...</em></span><br />
<br />
I will try again tomorrowMechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-74236609197623338622012-06-24T12:42:00.000-07:002013-04-02T02:55:43.882-07:00Sunday Morning, After My New York Recital<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Drenched—yet again— in
failure<br />
I rise from the ashes in holy strength<br />
White, and red with determination<br />
to untangle the beauty inside me. <br />
I arise to be a Me I don’t yet hear or see.</span></span></span>Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-50864924240560971302012-06-20T17:03:00.000-07:002012-07-04T09:01:24.643-07:00Dead Flesh Erected on Walking Sticks<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Click…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br />
the sound of robots</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Click, click…</b> <br />
the sound of imagination suffocating<o:p></o:p></span>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Click click-click… </b><br />
the sound of existence waning</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Clickity-clickity-clickity-clickity-clickity,
click…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br />
the sound of brains decaying</span><br />
<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Offices cloistered, phobic with<br />
Bugged-eyed, severed-wrist zombies<br />
Erected at electric boxed screens<br />
Paying fruitless homage to unfulfilled dreams <br />
Eight hours a day—eternal damnation. Stuffed</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Between
dingy-white pillars perch, as peacock tails, </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The
ignorant lear</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Gautami;">n</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">ѐ</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Gautami;">d</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> : mere
regurgitations of previous <br />
Regurgitations of the esteemed regurgitated, feasting on incestuous <br />
Vomit, segregated from society by empty, meaningless puffs,<br />
Not knowing they are dead flesh erected on walking sticks</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Pieced
together with insanity’s glue</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Click…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span></div>Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-14894645324090296762012-03-28T15:24:00.000-07:002012-06-05T05:25:16.588-07:00(1 John 4:18 "...But perfect love cast out fear...")He lives in me like heartburn—<br />
constant.<br />
His seething chemicals clog<br />
my air’s passage way;<br />
all colors <br />turn gray.<br />
His seed dominates<br />
my emotions’egg; <br />
together, <br />
we conceive <br />
Anxiety.<br />
Come, Love,<br />
sever this cord:<br />
exorcise my demon-child.Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-22122081006205781572012-02-26T04:31:00.004-08:002012-06-26T14:11:07.572-07:00Backstage: before my new york recital<div align="left">
Sometimes we dance together<br />
tippy-toed, teetering<br />
on cement ledges<br />
high<br />
up<br />
in<br />
Night<br />
<br />
She draws me<br />
into her<br />
bosom<br />
with a<br />
motherly<br />
embrace;<br />
i am<br />
covered.<br />
<br />
i<br />
ache<br />
to swaddle<br />
my black body<br />
in her<br />
midnight tapestry, and</div>
<div align="left">
fall <br />
asleep (forever)<br />
where</div>
<div align="left">
fears<br />
can’t<br />
torment me.<br />
<br />
i reject her<br />
embrace, and<br />
embrace the<br />
scorching, Bright<br />
Scorpion.</div>Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-41580891000952988532012-01-30T11:51:00.003-08:002013-01-09T04:21:52.954-08:00onstage at my new york recital—an armed fiend.<br />
<br />
One crisp strike—<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
He’s inside! ,</div>
<br />
playing surgery with my belly.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
His poison-tipped taunter</div>
<br />
<div align="right">
pierce perpendicular— </div>
thrashing—snipping—biting—di/ssecting… — rendering me<br />
<br />
s_p_r_a_w_l_e_d_<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
across an icy, sterile stage</div>
trembling—<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
knotted entrails<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: right;">
dangling out—</div>
</div>
Exposed— <br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
no friendly darkness to blanket me—</div>
<br />
Voice<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
aborted, breath</div>
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: right;">
strangled-to-death—</div>
Confidence, Self-Esteem<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
dripping, pooling</div>
on<br />
the<br />
floor<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-64379543793000068932011-08-24T13:29:00.000-07:002012-06-02T21:15:18.567-07:00Two Amigos<div align="left">
As I scurried down my path<br />
<br />
flustered-<br />
stum bling-<br />
dis/com/bo/bu/la/ted & out-of-joint-<br />
<br />
two dogs —resting— on a bed of grass<br />
<br />
still<br />
together<br />
present (in life)<br />
<br />
. . . bathing in the day . . .<br />
darning in each moment . . .<br />
<br />
One said, with dark gentle eyes,<br />
<br />
"slow down (dear one)<br />
<br />
to strive is not necessary, but to<br />
<br />
lie<br />
in the grass<br />
with a friend,<br />
<br />
tis." </div>Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-54535645711994861542011-07-22T15:51:00.002-07:002016-03-17T04:59:38.789-07:00The Gardener<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">He
humbled himself:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times";"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">knelt his desire at the foot of his flower's bed<br />like a penitent sinner. He
saw her <br />overwhelmed with green, and understood <br />her hard earth would</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i>soften by offering a little water.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stretched across her</span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> wooden frame, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">using bare-skinned hands, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">he skillfully removed each weed suffocating his garden.<br />Between fore-finger-</span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">and-thumb tips he caressed each hole<br />carved into her withering leaves, </span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">and determined in his heart <br />to exterminate the devouring creatures.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He remembered to turn the soil.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">At the side, he unwound the hose attached to the house </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">and unstopped the faucet–</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times";">water-consumed-drought-jumping-inside-her-dark-belly</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">resurrecting roots giving up the ghost.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ex</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">hausted and dewed, </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">he rested...</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Many nights he communed beneath the stars,</span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">savoring tuberose, </span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">honeysuckle, moonflower and c</span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">ereus... </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">...</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "ebrima";"> </span>and was satisfied.</span></span></span>Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665363056793108932.post-1486184330031232332011-06-23T11:05:00.000-07:002011-06-23T11:08:09.161-07:00On Loving A WomanMuch rain<br /><br />makes beautiful<br /><br />Flowers.Mechia Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413327217918690548noreply@blogger.com