My Poems in Lit Up Magazine

Got word recently from editor Mike Covey that two of my new poems are published in Lit Up Magazine. Follow the link http://litupmagazine.wordpress.com/new/. Lit Up Magazine is a cool journal of poetry, fiction and art. Check it out.

For all those lazy people out there :-), I am pasting the poems below:

Othello’s Path
Butterflies dropped dead from branches

Where they never grew

Dewdrops of nights that stifled dawns

Lay on your path
Or were they tiny handkerchiefs

Outlining a long sorrowful track?

White of course

Black with guile
Wordsmiths called

It green, envy

But when the foliage died

No one was left to pry
So, don’t walk that path dear Othello

Don’t wipe your eyes with

Those thunderstruck fingers, they’ll teach

You rage and us a loss forever to linger.

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Bouquets
In very hot weather

Flowers wilt like bouquets

As do kneeling gardeners

But no one hears them.
It is fashionable for us to

Take bouquets - not words -

To happy or sad rituals where

No one deciphers the flowers.
We can shade the buds

But that may deter buzzing bees

Heavy with the delusion of summer

And the ensuing calm.