What a joyous celebration of childhood and friendship and love.

https://poets.org/poem/naive

Excerpt from "Naïve" by Tim Seibles

"It was 1963.
We were two black boys

whose snaggle-toothed grins
held a thousand giggles.

Remember? Remember
wanting to play

every minute, as if that
was why we were born?"

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Today's poem:

Naïve
- by Tim Seibles

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/745453583623913472/na%C3%AFve?source=share

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ODE TO MY HANDS

Five-legged pocket spiders, knuckled
starfish, grabbers of forks, why
do I forget that you love me:
your willingness to button my shirts,
tie my shoes—even scratch my head!
which throbs like a traffic jam, each thought
leaning on its horn. I see you

waiting anyplace always
at the ends of my arms—for the doctor,
for the movie to begin, for
freedom—so silent, such
patience! testing the world
with your bold myopia...

https://poets.org/poem/ode-my-hands

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that bright flicker

Something Like We Did IV
Tim Seibles

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160851/something-like-we-did-iv

English was played

Something Like We Did III
Tim Seibles

(with a quotation from Anthony Braxton as its epigraph, from the day I saw him at the Jazz Festival Willisau in 2013)

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160850/something-like-we-did-iii

a restless vegetation

Something Like We Did II
Tim Seibles

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160849/something-like-we-did-ii

So much like sequins
the sunlight on this river.
Something like that kiss—

remember?
Fourth of July, with the moon
down early the air moved

as if it were thinking,
as if it had begun
to understand

how hard it is
to feel at home
in the world . . .

Tim Seibles
Unmarked

https://poets.org/poem/unmarked

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