BUFFY AAKAASH
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POETRY
Image by Justin Schuler
One Tennessee Summer
Early in the morning the whippoorwills kept saying
this is life. This is the way life goes. I hadn’t slept much.
My bed still empty. My beloved bastion of domestic bliss
out chasing the person he loved
who was chasing the person he loved.
It was summer but the morning cool
and the whippoorwills said stop taking this lying down.
So I went out barefoot to the moonlit garden insects abuzz
walked down rows of pea blossoms
smelling that bucolic feculence,
manure we’d laid down the sweltering day before,
and grazed the shoots, early breakfast. All the while
the whippoorwill shamans singing this life into being.
The sunlight rising, the roosters arousing spirits of languor
I dreamed my way back to bed, sweet sleep, heartache mollified
and again the whippoorwills
this is life this is life this is life.
Buffy Aakaash grew up as queer around the hills and lakes in New Jersey west of NYC, and has since lived in cities and rural towns throughout the US. His poems have been published by Sweety Cat Press, Main Street Rag and New Feathers Anthology, among others. Untangling the Knots, his chapbook of How To poems, was published by Kelsay Books in December of 2022. Currently he resides in Vermont’s Green Mountains with his 4-legged companion, Bodhi. His published work can be viewed at www.BuffyAakaashPoetry.com.
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