{"id":144,"date":"2009-07-29T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-07-29T11:59:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T16:59:42","slug":"barry-basden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/2009\/07\/barry-basden\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Basden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lovesick
\nBarry Basden, August 2009<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>I sat on the edge of the tub and
\nwatched my new wife bathe.
\nI was her second husband,
\nneeding to feel closer.<\/p>\n

I touched her knee.
\n\u201cI want to know everything about you.\u201d<\/p>\n

She lay back and
\ncandlelight flickered,
\nreflecting off her breasts.
\nShe looked into my eyes.
\n\u201cYou never will.\u201d<\/p>\n

And I never did.<\/p>\n

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Flights Not Taken
\nBarry Basden, August 2009<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>I come to poetry late,
\nface it, an old man now,
\nafter a lifetime of counting
\ntrivial things that have
\nbought only the unsatisfying
\ncomforts of trivial things.<\/p>\n

Like an old fighter pilot,
\nI dream again of the glory
\nof youthful flight, when life
\nwas intense, a matter of
\nboldness and sharp wits up in
\nthe cold clear skies, and I<\/p>\n

wish, with certain longing and
\nregret, I had joined the
\npoetry Aces, those masters
\nof rarified air, wanting
\nwords to lift and carry me
\noff into some wild blue yonder.<\/p>\n

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Barry Basden writes mostly short pieces these days. Some have been published in various online venues. Some have not. He is also coauthor of CRACK! AND THUMP: WITH A COMBAT INFANTRY OFFICER IN WORLD WAR II, and edits Camroc Press Review, online at www.camrocpressreview.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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