For Patricia Fiske – Copper today and gold forever – and for everyone who fits into your empty hugs.
Patricia Fiske sings Stormy Weather – August 6th, 2020
The Hole in the Hug
Tag Archives: Friendship
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Happy 80th Birthday Larry!
Dad and Saint Peter
Dad and Roy
Never More Beautiful
Sunday at Maria’s
This one is for Patricia Fiske and all the fans of Maria’s and the Austin Hippie Church
Copper Left Her Laugh
COPPER LEFT HER LAUGH
Copper Love
her answering machine
It is in
the hearts
of a thousand friends
as she laughs at death, or with it
LIGHT SHINING ON COPPER
LIGHT SHINING ON COPPER
I can mostly buy
the whole spiritual thing
that she is neither dead nor gone
or at a perfect time
and to a perfect place
But there is
this hole in a hug
where she used to fit
In memory of Copper Love 1947 – 2017
www.copperlove.com
PRECIOUS METALS
PRECIOUS METALS
(for Copper Love)
You can keep your gold and silver
that divide the world in war
It is copper that connects
Cold crowns of kings and queens
behind the glass beyond the touch
copper is the human metal
it is copper that conducts
Greed and hate abide in gold
in copper there is only love
it is copper that conducts
it is copper that connects
In memory of Copper Love 1947 – 2017
www.copperlove.com
ROUND TABLES
ROUND TABLES
He loved his neighbors, but not out loud
(Only by default could we tell if he was proud
men did not hug their friends or children then)
There were no women in the bar
and all the tables round and small
heavy with ashtray and pilsner draft
where they talked code till closing time
Politics of any stripe meant you are my brother
The weather, whatever the weather
meant I love you too