willow girl (5 poems)

    summer 1998





        willow girl  what's the color

        of your eyes?



        she keeps her eyelids shut

        with all her might

        and smiles  even laughs



        now about your nice teeth

        i can tell the world

        whether or not



        u wear braces...



        but i won't



        willow shade and sunny day





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the willow girl and pacific





    willow girl in a green tree

    branches splashed with whip cream

    how to find your green eyes

    smiling at white blooms?



    i'll turn your eyes to brown

    i'll make u mad:



         hey  u'r ignorant about html!



    didn't work



    now u'r looking a hundred miles

    up north toward san francisco downtown

    where a man shouts incoherently

    shakes his fist at passersby

    his urine splashes a next year

    model little economy car

    foamy pool collects

    under the right front tire



    now your eyes are navy blue





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                 willow girl





  my nose hides

  in a mug filled with amber

  next to the bottle's thick green glass



  the redhead's summer green eyes project joy

  their sun soaked mountain creek amber forest's happy mood





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            willow girl got herself

            friends and trees in the garden

            one chimney on the roof

            and one poet on the fence



            come california winter-joke

            the burning wood in the fireplace

            smells good the friends' stories

            sound even better

            the poet does

            what poets do

            the chimney

            decorates the sky with a fractal





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    across from florida to california

    oranges roll

    oblivious to my stare

    u seem cold

    while the earth swims in flames

    i know your eyes

    and i would warm your hand

    in mine

    if i knew your name





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Wlodzimierz Holsztynski ©

        1998

    July 22 - Sept 24