Malelani Mix #1 / by Andrew Christman

Dark Moments sleep with ease – wind

at night smiling memories

Glimpses calling

we can taste what belongs to the day

Heavy haunts, sober cult mother,

pieces on the ground saved.

 

Maps on the top began

wanting old clothes

wanting stones

Pine heart

taste geranium

Stood South - Flowers

 

One pink blossom

Flashing pines

Light remembers sorrow-

My sorrow

The heart yearns for

what (the) body never forgets

ritual remembers

Skylight prose

Look up

 

Watching a child

roll on sweet front steps

Eyes – Germantown

dust

a woman- friends – dances

This cat glances

 

Love gives the perfect temperature – hot

Two boys aloft streetlight calling shadows

Summer green

Woman decorated in a daze

The day forgets when nature’s change is the will

Edges transformed

Which will never object

The making of the

loveliest creatures

 

A man

Color

Now two boys

Aloft in the sky

Another

Drifting

Humming, flashing scent

Opened purple mint

Play in the grass

 

Eyes aloft

Eyes the more delicious

Singing off to sleep

Hiding in gardens – Wayne Ave.

Body on black dresses

She’s with the transformed pine

(Scent)

A community poem completed at the Malelani Café, June 2017