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Blue by Thomas
Zimmerman Your mother’s
favorite color. Joni’s greatest record. Sky
and
sky reflected
in the water. Unoxygenated blood. A
lonesomeness, an inwardness, a bruise, sweet ache, and
easy riffing: blue ribbon blue pencil blue
collar blue
moon the
boys in blue out of the blue blue in the face the wild blue yonder true
blue blue
blazes Bluebeard blue-haired
lady Kind
of Blue Midnight Blue Blue Train Two
Steps from the Blues blue note blue
spruce blue
movie beaten
black and blue The skim-milk hue of
white folks’ legs in summer. “Too
full o’ th’ milk of human kindness.” Heaven. And
the stars that fleck your one woke eye.
Fighting
Off the Wise by Thomas Zimmerman Since
life’s at last smoothed out for him, he thinks his sullen art
should have more bite. And damned Chopin is on the stereo again. The
major keys can make a person feel a fresh world’s
breeze and birdsong, pulse and breath. The minor, though, they shade the shadow,
dim the
dark. He finds this richer, deeper, strange, a mate for his
persona, fighting off the wise. He contemplates his latest
sketch: a
long-necked woman, dark hair parted down the middle, forehead
creased and eyebrows thick. Eyes close-set, large, and ringed by
. . . grief? ennui? fatigue? The mouth, however, full-lipped,
smiling. Oh to tear the page to shreds. He can’t.
Horses
in the Dark by Thomas Zimmerman The
water rushing in, a tide, a flood: unconscious mind. I
dive, dream-lathered now, my conscience sparking blue despite the
blood that
flushes me, the wet that weeps, and—wow!— I’ve been asleep so
many years. I lean against the darkness, let it straddle
me to
spur, to gouge—my ass, my back, my spleen. Like being broken in
the dark. The sea- tossed spume on moon-stung sand’s
a bright white mane. The hoof-kick’s quick and dashes
out the brain. . . . We prance in rain
that sluices all the shit- clogged gutters
clean. Parisians ride gas-lit above the catacombs. We hail Baudelaire, who
promises he’ll take us anywhere. Thomas Zimmerman (he/him) teaches English, directs the Writing Center, and
edits The Big Windows Review https://thebigwindowsreview.com/ at Washtenaw Community College, in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
USA. His poems have appeared recently in Haven Speculative, Sledgehammer,
and Spellbinder. Tom's website: https:/thomaszimmerman.wordpress.com Twitter: @bwr_tom Instagram: tzman2012
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