This Exact Morning Moment

I’m as kind
as a porcupine
as long as you don’t 
know
what a porcupine is 
and think
a pin cushion 
is cozy.

B.F.M.

Flower Drop Soup

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Flower Drop Soup

16" x 20"
2012
Digital prints available.

Artist: B.F.M.

It's one thing to have a fly in your soup another to have a flower. A spoof on Egg Drop Soup.

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Dust Storms

Your elders gloat like lilly pads
on a pond
under sunscreen and broad hats

thousands of miles from their 
grown children.

Then the call comes:
“your mother, she fell”;
"your father, has a spot, lump, cough.”

All this is an unexpected thunder storm 
carpeting your sun.

You don’t know it yet, but you’ve 
just been drafted into the minor leagues
playing for a team plagued by dust storms.

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Autumn Lust

I love 
when you wear 
that burning crimson 
maple dress.

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Awkward Gong

I tend to let

two, three weeks

pass before

hearing:

gong, gong, gong

Then it's all I hear:

GONG, GONG, GONG.

**

The you and I of it

pack our baggage, 

say our goodbyes,

wrap ourselves 

in salve & gauze.

Say curses, 

close our doors,

and wonder what 

we saw in the color

off pink.

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Lover's Call

Caught off guard
she calls my name 
like an office mate
needing a paperclip.

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Churning

This afternoon

I was an oak

disturbed

as a bee hive.

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Being

Morning dove
soaked with sun
rests 
on the wrought 
iron fence.

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Competition Backside

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Competition Backside

16" x 20"
Digital prints available.
2008

Artist: B.F.M.

Here we are in the middle of the Olympics. This is one of my favorite events. I created this piece back in 2008.

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Clocking In

I have no
romantic evening bell 
chiming dusk 
like 
a fine Japanese haiku. 

I only have 
the creaking
of the old man’s walker
calling me to duty.


B.F.M.