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Best Poems From
DONNA QUESINBERRY
(06/05/1957)
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Bitters And Soda Water
Nations-Buzz night:
DJ Dan pumps
connections and gigs-
hot
spun
tunes.
Nana raver opens
henna resin paints-
pink
blue
green.
Love artist renderings
cover ecstasies corpses-
dilated
respirated
touches.
Garcias' grateful dead
tripping devil god-
blacklite
fluorescent
reality.
Nana raver viewing
Jerry shining his-
well
strung
guitar.
Flapper theme night
skirts roughing air-
same
party
blues.
Donna Quesinberry
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The Leaves of April
an ode to spring..
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leaves in spring are tender occurrences
sprouting heavenward with a vibrance
that the blue jay mimics at my doorway
a warbling kaw in ridiculous showmanship
he ruffles feathers and leans in with an intrepid
mannerism as if to dare me to mark his territory.
men and women preen and strut in springtime
as well, after a current of jumping rope and jogging
to prepare for the abundance of potential marketing
that can take place at happy hours, malls, and
in front of street vendors. Hoping Mr. or Mrs. Right
with traverse their path, view silkened tan skin
with fit muscles and lean masses of preponderance.
Then summer arrives like a rouse denoting who
has won the race to coupling before the fall holidays.
Donna Quesinberry
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Chalk Lines-Original
Running Mason-Dixon chalk lines
Delivered Blue-Educated Grey.
Antietam to Gettysburg to Vicksburg to Shiloh.
Delivered Grey, Educated Blue.
Sputtered folklored guitar ballads
under family headstones.
Vacations flew
North
then south
Accents flared
like
out-of-town badges.
North:
Mafioso manors-myths
Front porch rocker deaths-then
smells of heavy coal.
Steeled iron crossing bridges-echoes
Off the rivers low below.
`cepting when Pocono rainmakers
forget to stop dancing and the floods came.
Slate Chasimed Mountains
etched left then right;
Zig-Zag's traveled deep in gorges
to buy small Italian plums
at Grandpa's rest-stop.
Bingo night over at Harper's Glen
clutching steamed vinegar
fries, running free with
no reins, nasty boys to hit.
Sidewalk street linings made of
horse tied carriage decors, corner
stepped special stools for little
girl pretend plays. Cemetery tombstoned
photo inserts from some great beyond; waiting for
electronic age special talking buttons. Prizes
strewn about, glass w/tomato juice can inside
next to plastic absolute bottle, Tonka truck and scarf.
Tea party theatres featuring howling
creature marathons; `cepting when
the Owl & the Pussycat allowed us
to enter-accidents happen.
Grablick's ice cream parlor's 51
flavors, then Nardone's Sicilian pies;
Adventure Land musement parklife.
Grandpa and Humpie's village children.
China Porcelain cups w/saucers
behind French doored glass partitions.
Fake-me-out fireplace, fad's intervention,
funny crackling log. Coal bin cellar detectives
becoming bearclawed bathtub bombers-sailors.
Piano playing western movie bells, wearing mink
muffs, fox furs showing buggy eyes. Debutante
crocheted white glove tea marmies beyond space.
South:
Plantation homelands with long
spun driveways, floating greens along
gravel gritted crackling sound bytes.
Sunshine posted at 80 degrees
in balmed dry lost its sea air. Spanish
mossed hemlocks engulfed Brent's
river trailer. Swing rope stretched
out over gatorland, jumped! Caught!
Splashes recovered, luck be a lady grins.
Sandy vistas of quick yard dashes
to navigate bur infestations, only missed
at dead runs. Palm trees gift: slivered trunks,
hiding bugs and slicing hands.
Iced tea manners from poe do creamy cooks.
How ya'll doins, those South
Carooleanyan sensations, hurled twanged rhetoric.
Night deer hunts then gator skin sales,
Just outside Charleston beach pier. Always
two living rooms, no souls in one, `cepting when
someone died or married. Lotsa colored people.
Happy camped smiles. Screened doors,
wrapping porches keeping babies safe.
Red-necked and hicked general stores w/pickup
Trucks-lotsa shotguns. Cruised main every night. One
stop light, one Sheriff. Tastee Freeze
cones licked off the top of car hoods.
Bare-footed casual, salted tanned and
bronze skins, free stylin proprieties of cool.
Home:
Yank and Rebel albums, glass
encased uniform treasures,
oohs and ahs.
After midnight troop food runners Aunts
of aid to warring factions opposed only
for reunion in this puzzle piece placement generation.
Auntie gifts:
John Wilkes Booth's getaway boat
Ulysses S. Grant's nurse.
No one's special fortune telling palmist.
Donna Quesinberry
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Random Writers
hands play
keys hard
banging
jelly rolls
thighs beat
marmalade rump
tap
beat
di - lay - shun
di - lay - shun
pupils
focused
on vintage
window
staring
fixated
on crinkly skin
saged harlequin
osmosizes
beat
revelations
in silence
slaps knees
palmy,
creak toes
keeps tune
without motion.
di - lay - shun
di - lay - shun
hands playing keys
bang hard
jelly rolls rump
marmalade thighs tap
beats
9 hundred 32 dayed
wisdom gatherer
focused dialationed pupil
at vintage window
stares
fixated without motion
on crinkly skin
16 thousand 262 dayed
saged harlequin
osmosizes
visionary revelations
lessons in silence
slaps knees palmy,
creaks toes
keeps tune.
Donna Quesinberry
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