Blues

Posted on December 3, 2007 by Dave Bonta

Sun shines through the snow squall
& the two panes of glass
in my back door.
I miss you. My knees are cold,
& make little popping noises
when I climb the stairs.
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Another one for the Read Write Poem challenge.

About Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with one quadrillion of his closest microbial friends --- a tight-knit, symbiotic community comprising some 500 different species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
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8 Responses to Blues

  2. Dick says:
    December 4, 2007 at 9:43 am

    A white man’s blues, Dave. Listening to knees popping rather than the popping of the railroad tracks bringing in the 2.19 that’s going to take your baby away…

  3. Dave says:
    December 4, 2007 at 9:49 am

    Could be. But way back in ’29, John Hurt sang, “The way I’m sleepin, my back and shoulders tired./ Gonna turn over, try it on this side.”

  4. Dave says:
    December 4, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    And come to think of it, sometimes a white man’s blues are as deep as any ever sung.

  5. Theriomorph says:
    December 7, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    I love your short form work, Dave – haiku, the twitter stuff, these kinds of poems.

    Small paintings with words.

  6. Dave says:
    December 7, 2007 at 3:38 pm

    Thanks. I am honored by your high opinion of them.

    I won’t ask you to read my epic. :)

  7. Theriomorph says:
    December 9, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    Bontasaurus! Cool.

    Is this something we can get our hands on in print, to spare the screen-reading/print cartridge? If no, will read anyway, but let us know?

  8. Dave says:
    December 9, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    Nope, sorry. I thought of doing it with Lulu, but a) getting permissions to reproduce the myriad of epigraphs would be a nightmare, and b) I’m just not terribly excited about the book anymore. The whole process of researching, writing and blogging it was very educational for me, but, you know…