{"id":1408,"date":"2012-10-11T22:55:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2017-07-11T17:19:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T17:19:45","slug":"saturday-midnight-by-charles-f-thielman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/saturday-midnight-by-charles-f-thielman\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Midnight by Charles F. Thielman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday Midnight<\/h1>\n

by Charles F. Thielman<\/p>\n

The rust iron wing of a train horn
\npinballs down glass and steel canyons,<\/p>\n

headlights sweep our shadows past
\na mural, circle of hands touching hands<\/p>\n

of all colors, framed by two whales
\nplanting songs in a darkening current.<\/p>\n

The hope of public art not altering realities
\nas sirens thorn over a nearby avenue.
\nThe dark boas of city streets hours
\nfrom releasing gray dawn, this jazz joint<\/p>\n

in full hop and bop, opening door
\nreleasing a river of sax notes plying drum<\/p>\n

and piano rhythms as the current
\nrivulets over iron-mesh caught rocks.
\nHot mist catches streetlight yellow
\nen route to swirl above drain grates,<\/p>\n

my veins filling with inks and colors
\nfor page and canvas as I shoulder inside<\/p>\n

a jazz solo, guitarist picking through what
\naches after my work-week of unloading trucks.<\/p>\n

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\nRaised in Charleston, S.C., and Chicago, educated at red-bricked universities and on city streets, Charles has worked as a youth counselor, truck driver, city bus driver and enthused bookstore clerk.<\/p>\n

Married on a Kauai beach in 2011, a loving Grandfather for five free spirits, Charles inspired work as Poet, Artiste and shareholder in an independent Bookstore’s collective continues! He organizes readings at the store.<\/p>\n

And not a few of his poems have been accepted by literary journals, such as The Pedestal, Poetry365, The Criterion [India], Poetry Salzburg [Austria], Battered Suitcase, Future Cycle, The Oyez Review, Poetry Kanto [Japan], Tiger’s Eye and Rio Grande Review!<\/p>\n

See http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d-5-G_jaoJY<\/a> for a sample of Charles participating in a group reading at said store, Tsunami Books, Eugene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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