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WALT
(Soon to be published in an anthology by Allbook Books.)
By Geraldine Green

you with your jaunty smile and eyes in a teacup.
you with your hat on one side a wide brimmed smile blowing over the hempsteads.
you with your blackthorn stick and stride your billowing voice lamenting the parting of seabirds.
you with your arms like happy windmills! waving to the sea the land the railroads and soldiers.
you with your laughing beard like zeus baring his chest as you make your way round the boundaries of oceans.
you, walt whitman of the long line and bounding somersaults of tender poetry.
walt with your working man's hands and mystery in the digging of graves and gardens and planting of trees.
here on your beloved paumonok fishtailed island.
in your heart of lobsters and clams dancing.
inside your wonderful beard the king james bible walking.
with each step you make as you mark the bounds.
stopping to stroke a dog, touch a child.
smiling as you see someone you resemble.
a woman holding a child an old man a prophet a drugstore owner.

you walt, pray to the sea and the air as i pray
bending your knees to better understand the blades of grass.

AT HOME
By Geraldine Green

bloodied by the rain today on the island by the sand and the waves by the pack horse trails and the tales of indians along the way

here on the island bloodied by today and the waves and the rain here today on the island my legs scratched by blackberry trails and waves of rain and blood

and the trails of indians and the paumasett and montaukett and shinnecock
and settlers the settlers here on the island

and the amish who built this barn one day opening the sides flat on the ground
like a wooden petalled flower and it rising up! rising up to the sky

like the sun drawing up water like my spirit making waves like smoke to the sky
and the rain and the thunder fas as houses rain drops fat as sky!

and lightning zagging my eyes as i wake here at home on this island.

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