Petulant Love

Sweet bird of the earliest black spring
seeking that tremulous sighing
one second we're circulating
and the artist stops his crying
drops of bloody sun form
today as all dying ended
and my young lover walked me around
South Boston's Carson Beach
allowing me to boast in soulful indolence
I fight my ragged heart my frailty
so then occurred the ultimate cruelty
my lover left me for a new shoe
MY new shoe to chew
oh please come back my sweet
Jack!

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Biography

Dan Burnstein is a lawyer who lives in South Boston, MA, owns a puppy named Jack, and teaches at Gibbs College. Since 2003 he has participated in the Workshop for Publishing Poets led by Barbara Helfgott Hyett in Brookline, MA. Burnstein is also a photographer whose website is at www.fotki.com/npro.