DUSTING FINGERPRINTS
Sit without saying
Lit candles in summer sun
I hope you are well
Walking neighborhood sideways
From before old gospel songs
Jim Bodeen
23 July 2022
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Pitting pie cherries
Pull stem push stone with fingers
Kitchen table stains
Bloodied story-wrapped poems
Pre-promised peace-prayer savor
Jim Bodeen
18-20 July 2022
BEFORE 7 AM
BEFORE 7 AM
Transplant blades of grass
From one lawn to another
Takes one’s breath away
Jim Bodeen
13 July 2022
MIS-TAKE
MIS-TAKE
Two boys on bikes, stop,
ask me, Did you build these cairns?
We’ll never be lost.
Jim Bodeen
1 July 2022
THE SHIRT WITH BLOOD ON ITS HANDS
THE SHIRT WITH BLOOD ON ITS HANDS
FOR MISSING AND MURDERED
INDIGENOUS
WOMEN
My brother brings me this shirt
and says, Wear it tomorrow.
Looking at it, watching TV,
I say,
That’s a tough shirt to put on.
He looks at me, and asks,
Why is that?
Jim Bodeen
July 4, 2022
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