Verlaine Boyd: Two Poems

Flat File 

Sorting through 

His drawings/

Prints/works on paper

I come across ones

I’d never seen

New friends

Among familiar faces

I’m an archeologist

Digging up the past

Eager to know

The whole picture

Lament for a Lady

My right-hand man

Left me

And now I must

Handle all the

Fix-up clean-up

Pay up and

Keep up alone

It is too much

To keep track

Of if in fact

That is what

I am expected

To do and still 

Have time to

Put words to paper

Write poems

And other fictions

Think thoughts

Profound and witty

I’m all caught up

In getting by

Making do

Life’s small triumphs

The nitty gritty

Scenarios 

Of survival

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Verlaine Boyd is a writer who lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York. She has been published widely and can be reached at her website: verlaineboyd.com

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