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I Miss You

It is the month of ravens, the time
of liquid light. It has been a long year
within the golden eye of the imagination.
There was much to see,
yet nothing endures,
and I cannot bear to be without you
for another day. My feet
freeze in place. There is no getting away
from what may break. Even my shadow is
brittle, cracks like ice beneath the vacuous sun.
In the great spruce behind our home,
three ravens squeak out caws like twisted nails
from frigid bark, change positions as they ladder up,
branch by branch, but the small one, a female
I think, is first to the top. Yesterday,
after the snow came, the solar disk
whimpered behind a wispy smudge of cloud,
shimmered dreamy and moonlike, and a lone eagle
shuttled its way across the steel wool sky.
It is the month of luminous mist,
of the burning bite of hoarfrost,
when the cold takes possession
of its own, and the charred
raven brings the glowing gift
to those whose words freeze in the mouth.
As slanted rays of shrouded light
fall from the ash,
 
I am left to ask,
“What brings you to me in the night?
Will the knit of need and knot of time
hold only when legs are woven tight?”
My fabric frays without you.
Here in the chill of the crystalline dawn,
the gray and glittered grit of the perpetual thaw,
I climb the murky tree of my mind, ascending
limb by limb into the stark sky of heart. Each day away,
I ache within the hollow of my bones;
like the morning star, I bleed into the bluster of day.

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from Into Light: The Poems of M. D. Friedman, released January 1, 2024

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Mad Dog Friedman | Mad Dog Blues | Peddlers of Joy Lafayette, Colorado

Mad Dog writes from the moment and sings from his heart. His influences include sources as divergent as William Butler Yeats & the delta blues. His songwriting is sincere, simple & often humorous. He has recorded many solo & collaborative projects featuring his spontaneous compositions on harmonica, Native American flute & Theremin. He is also the founder of Mad Dog Blues & The Astral Project. ... more

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