Free Verse by David Blumenfeld
blistering buffeting bashing me brutally tearing me teasing me targeting me kicking my teeth in fucking me fiercely goring my guts out sitting me sideways sucking my marrow with metaphors marvelous assonance anguished similes sensuous images incandescent searing suffocating stichics and strophes such beautiful blistering buffeting bashing and bullying buoyantly furiously funny in the saddest most bittersweet way such tortuous targeting teasing and toying explosive epiphanies exhuming old feelings I was certain were dead…am I in love with you pitifully pathetically painfully or just hopelessly helplessly high on your colossal kick-ass penetrating poetry and prose? If I survive it all, here is my hymn: there are lots of good poets but Damn it -- there’s only one Kim.
David Blumenfeld (a.k.a. Dean Flowerfield) is an emeritus philosophy professor and associate dean who in retirement returned to writing stories, children’s literature, and poetry, which he abandoned in his late twenties to devote full-time to philosophy. His work appears in a wide variety of journals and anthologies.
