"san francisco poem-2013" by Thomas Stanton
i am seeing
the
recurrent
mists
winter
mists
i moved here
because i was skinny
and needed to wear
sweaters
i moved here
because
i thought
the fog and
the cold
would trim
my way too
fast
so cal visions
i remembered the summer of love
and
gary ford
box shoe
bastard
who went
off to
war
while
i drifted
through
the
haight
inexplicably
to now
i have arrived
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Now that you’ve read the poem, here is a commentary by Benicia Patch Poetry Maestro Jeff Burkhart:
Today's poem is from Thomas Stanton and is entitled "san francisco poem-2013". I love Mr. Stanton's style. It is written the way we think. Stream of consciousness. Thoughts pasted together in the order they occur. One thought leading to another. Thoughts building and combining. A petri dish of feelings and ideas growing into something more as a whole than it's own component parts. What you see is what you get with Tom. A hippie....a beatnik.... a poet .......a builder of wood and words........a good read.
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