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Phil Huffy – 1 poem

With Benefits

I would take the train to 23rd Street
and you’d buzz me in.

You had that record with Janis Siegel
 singing  Chanson D’Amour

and we’d sit in your tiny kitchen
and drink our sodas,  or sometimes tea,

and no cocktails, or wine or weed
would be required for the events to follow.

Even now, those steamy nights
of youthful excess

remain pinprick articulations
in the melody of life.

Words of love — never spoken,
never needed, never sought.

Sometimes I watched your bedside clock,
waiting for dawn to hurry me on my way.

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           Phil Huffy is a reformed attorney from Rochester, New York, USA.  Before turning to poetry, he hobbied for years as a           songwriter and solo performer.  He often writes from personal experience as he would like to remember it.           Recent placements include The Lyric, Gold Dust, Lighten Up Online and three haiku journals.

Categories
Poetry

Phil Huffy – 1 poem

Alone

 

You chose me from a hundred score

and took my secrets for your own.

Now, time’s accursed bugle blown,

I carry on but little more.

 

You brought to me what poets seek

and love struck still your dreams I hold.             .

I keep them safe and hear them speak

in empty rooms of endless cold.

 

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           Phil Huffy is a reformed attorney from Rochester, New York, USA.  Before turning to poetry, he hobbied for years as a
           songwriter and solo performer.  He often writes from personal experience as he would like to remember it.
           Recent placements include The Lyric, Gold Dust, Lighten Up Online and three haiku journals.