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I Want To Be A Crab

I want to be a crab Covered orange, a little red, just a dab, Soft inside the shell Hard outside where others see, Then I wouldn’t feel so small When the world threatens me.

May 30, 2016 By Joshua Wait Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Poetry

No Ma’am

Two women talk in the parking lot. A boy stands by his mother, just a tot. Do you want to play with Adam. Scowling little face says, “No ma’am.”

May 29, 2016 By Joshua Wait Leave a Comment
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Invention

Stick and stones And a few pine cones This boy has an invention. It springs into being with The magic of intention. It’s a magic machine Producing cake, cookies, and everything in between. The wonder comes not from what is there But from the mind that creates with care.

May 29, 2016 By Joshua Wait Leave a Comment
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Broadway, San Francisco

Pigeons don’t care about prostitutes, strippers or porn. They only care about bits of bread and corn.

May 29, 2016 By Joshua Wait Leave a Comment
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He Watched Her Face

He watched her face. The quiet in her face. Calm. Happiness. He saw it. “Are you happy?” he asked. “Yes, I am,” she said. And having asked, and having said it, the happiness became shared. It belonged to them both. Sharing it made more happiness. Multiplied it. It enlarged beyond the moment of good circumstances […]

June 22, 2015 By Joshua Wait Leave a Comment
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Tulip

Tulip

Many paintings are simply happy accidents. Lavender brushed onto the canvas, Then white. White bleeds into the lavender. A damp cloth and angry scrubbing Turn the lavender into grey. Teal, dabs of teal on top of the grey. The grey and teal take on a flavor Like chocolate seasoned with pepper— It makes sense to […]

March 1, 2014 By Joshua Wait Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Art, Poetry Tagged With: painting, poem

January 17, 2014

This morning, a morning in the hottest January in California history, The moon sits white and luminous over a lavendar bay. San Francisco, endlessly innovative San Francisco, is only a faint grey outline amidst the dust that refuses to clear. The grass should feel damp this morning or stiff with frost, But it feels dry, […]

January 17, 2014 By Joshua Wait Leave a Comment
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January 8, 2014

The clouds were grey and purple, Like bruise, like the way I felt. A young woman got in the car at the casual car pool, Then her man–he called her Lisa. Silence, they didn’t speak though they were intimate. Left alone to drive, I meditated on my bruise, The pool of color collecting around Oakland, […]

January 8, 2014 By Joshua Wait Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Poetry

One Bird, Two

One Bird, Two

One bird, two. Three birds, four. One on the walk, One at the door, Collecting seeds For Winter’s store.

December 17, 2013 By Joshua Wait Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Art, Poetry Tagged With: poetry, sketch

Pomegranates

Pomegranates

Pomegranates She had thick locks of iron grey hair That laughed down her back. Reclining on the blanket in their backyard, Her gaze held a smile on his face. The professor and his wife introduced me To the harpsichord, good wine, and backyard picnics. He adjusted his thick glasses, and that wry smile appeared. He […]

December 7, 2013 By Joshua Wait Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Art, Poetry Tagged With: Alzheimer's, dementia, painting, poetry

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