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Justin Blaauw Mar 2010
Borrow me a dream,
ungodly like the beating sun,
my memories of the mourning morn,
sold to me by a government old.

A day I captured text perfect
on bleach’ed pulp, a seed of
thought, amongst the buried dead bodies
by the river.

Borrow, for I must return
it to the country I remembered,
an image burned, into the
conscious and unconscious of
a legacy we ought behold.
The sun, today, it is cold.

Mom, Dad - what have I done,
your ill-begotten son
Asunder and on the run,
from the plague and tyranny
rebegun
I’m living for the sinking
of the erstwhile setting sun.
Kurt Philip Behm May 2022
Morning, bright morning,
your promise has come
Morning, bright morning,
new birth of the sun

Into your arms
I bathe in reflection
Into your warmth
I strip off my fear

Into your heart
I surrender the darkness
Into your strength
I lay down my spear

Morning, bright morning,
your promise has come
Morning, bright morning
—today rebegun  

(Local Train From 30th Street Philadelphia: May, 2022)
Kurt Philip Behm Dec 2021
Lost in a card game
that others would pass
I feel the time slowing
while covering fast

A dim all-night roadhouse
blue plate of regret
whose neon but flickers
my hunger to bet

A *** full of memory
has come unannounced
with bare knuckled waging
I raise every doubt

But the road’s calling silent
its direction unclear
my thumb pointing inward
to ante the fear

The odds long but taken
to gamble and run
my fortune extended
and past rebegun

A graveyard sits lonely
on the side of a hill
awaiting those fated
last dealer to ****

A light in the distance…
the ‘Omaha Gate’
it’s twelve minutes early
tomorrow is late

Asleep in the boxcar
alone with myself
the questions keep playing
—one ace left undealt

(Sinking Springs Diner: December, 2021)

— The End —