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    Late Leaves Hanging
    Late Leaves Hanging
    Late Leaves Hanging
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    Late Leaves Hanging

    By Erik Black

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    Here are poems of life and nature, of love and loss, of joy and sorrow, of faith and family, and fly fishing which encompasses all!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErik Black
    Release dateFeb 7, 2025
    ISBN9798230744221
    Late Leaves Hanging
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    Erik Black

    I live in Kansas City but have lived overseas, in Kenya and Morocco. These travels have influenced my writing (Hey I now have a book out on my time in Kenya called "The Trees Were Spinning"). P.S. I really am working on the next books! The Trees Were Spinning is out now, and DRWN Trilogy book 1 will be coming next year. Writing is real work! Almost done with book 1, and then the editing begins...

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      Late Leaves Hanging - Erik Black

      

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      Late Leaves Hanging

      It has been nearly a decade since I published my last poetry collection (not counting a book of haiku and another of special untranslatable words). A lot has happened since, both good and bad, and much of this has influenced my writing. Two wonderful cats joined our family in 2017. Later that same year I lost my brother to suicide and also my uncle. Gain and loss are both part of life, and we each find a way to express our joy and pain. I have had many struggles with my own identity and worth, attacks coming through my children that divided us for a time, doubts that linger still. I have enjoyed a few world travels, new cultures and experiences to add to my pool of dreams. My father moved back to live nearby, and my mother I had to move to a memory care unit near me, still so good to have them in my life. Recently my body has not been kind to me, an autoimmune disease that limits what I can do but has shown me that I still have many blessings and opportunities. And ever by my side my wonderful faithful bride, and ever in my heart faith that leads my life, and all around the wonder of creation and Him who made it all.

      February 2025

      Crown Shyness

      there are cracks in the canopy

      fissures pouring the sky behind

      light touching the shaded earth below

      the sitkas do not touch

        know not the embrace of love

      there is always sadness in your leaving

        my little love

      an hour or a year, time matters not

        but that we are not together

      i send you out into the world —

        my heart goes with you

      1/19/20 for Eden after a lunch together

      the darkness God and i alone

        see clearly, His brightness

        unfaded, untainted

      but my soul carries it, buries it,

        gnaws upon it as a wound

          that does not heal

      7/19/21

      Midnight, 2 hours into a blackout

      willow throws her hair

        north and south

      the wind her fierce partner

      no light but lightning

        filling half the sky;

      darkness and silence

        brought our children

        to music, to us

      8/12/21

      Adventures in Time

      he feels the plate slick with soap,

        slick as side three of the jazz LP playing Cassandra,

      and imagines himself doing dishes in the lounge kitchen,

        1955

      20 cents an hour but all the jazz you can eat

      4/27/20

      i created a moment

      some notes and a chord

      going out into the night dark

      never heard before nor exactly again

      only a moment

      but mine

      3/16/21

      The Four, in the order i met them

      One

      born in the right time

      child of new potential

      you read the words and sang our songs

      and told us before you did wrong

      we made our mistakes but gave all to you

        she your

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