PoetryMagazine.com Guest Editor's Feature Poet Kurt Schweigman

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Kurt Schweigman
USA

Kurt Schweigman is co-editor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016). His poetry appears in Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (Michigan State University Press, 2008). Kurt was a featured poet at the prestigious Geraldine R. Dodge 12th Biennial Poetry Festival and the first spoken word poet to receive an Archibald Bush Foundation artist fellowship in literature. Although retired from competition, he has won Poetry Slams across the United States and in Germany. Kurt has a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the University of Oklahoma. Born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, he now resides in Oakland and is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

Leaves, Living, Leaving

hiking Temescal Park

wind gust rotates small dried leaves

rolling in a manner of ocean surf

no people around

chilled air

beads of sweat

new aching heart

rare vignettes experienced only once

brief one act solitary play

wishing its death bed visit

reliving those handful of seconds

you cancelled coming this summer

so much I wanted to share

mecca of all bookstores, City Lights

curios of Radio Habana in the Mission

taco trucks of East Oakland

paprika colored sunsets over I-980

from my balcony

…intertwined in your beauty

showing you how the leaves tumbled

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