Tuesday, November 29, 2016


               November 8th 2016

      (on the election of Donald Trump)


             ash floats higher
     over a fire
than masks held up on poles

   November 5th
hence forthwith
they’ll remember their roles

when November 8
 to make America great
   they voted for moles


parent neighbor
 childhood traitor
   faces of conspiracy

                         news now saying
    gunpowder plots
anger at democracy   



Copyright © Dick Russell
                 2016

Saturday, November 12, 2016

                                          1967 Near Lagos: 

                                                 for Mogens Brynjolf                                          

                                                              Walking to the Sea



           a hot day in motion
slight breeze among palm trees
   wearing shirt no tie

                    a hut
    on a fringe of beach
between forest     and       ocean
             swamp             lagoon

suckling her baby
                   silhouetted against gloom inside
                             that one roomed hut
                      
                      imagine
                    her embrace
                so warmly she unveils  
                       watchful brown
                               green eyes

                    in her womb
              a man might gauge
                      a longing for
                             another child
                    so warmly
                          she smiles

             such as he
                                                       lonely walking from Yaba Tech
                                                            on his way to the sea



                                                              copyright (C) Dick Russell
                                                                                2016

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Aphrodite Said                                                                                    Medea                                                                               

  

           
 For Jolene


in love like chess
    you must make the next move
         must contend with her
                 not any other







       Dick Russell
                ©
             2016


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