Chet Baker’s Tangerine
Shirley Temple’s “Ooooh, my goodness!”
The flight pattern coming into O’Hare
without him
where she’s playing Solitaire
forming a perfect fluttering
arc shuffling the deck
wondering why the glass
is octagonal
and the hole in the ground
was a rectangle
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Awesomely dark and evocative! A story in the making! Great one, Jilly!
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That’s what I felt as I wrote this – there could be a story in it and this is the opening line. Maybe a bit of flash…? Thanks for reading, Charley!
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Always enjoy reading your work, Jilly!
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So good. The Chet Baker and the Temple references are painful opposites hung together as the poem descends.
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So glad you spotted that – the dychotomy of Baker & Temple, and, yet, similar is some ways, too, now that I think about it. Thanks for reading; I appreciate your insight.
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Yes! All moves and hangs together!
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