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# Poetry by Billy Greene
- URL: https://www.fsm.ink/poetry-by-billy-greene/
- Published: 2023-02-07T01:04:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-03T18:43:55.000Z
- Author: Staff
- Tags: Poetry, #Import 2026-08-03 09:59

*There, Critic*

love from you   
 old lover:  
take a picture  
of my portraiture,   
someday you’ll   
see your signature

your strokes   
on my figure

I may have   
gotten over  
 but the distance   
keeps it closer

my frame  
 narrow smaller  
every time you’re a   
cold observer  
 framing   
every thought   
I wonder

---

*Years of Finery*

She paints the city   
& the country   
with her body,   
taking only  
the roads   
she knows.

She sees the cities   
& the tears  
fall down,  
years of finery   
held high in the   
drowning heyday.

She asks the locals  
& their children,  
“Does it have to go so soon?”

They sigh in their pearls  
& their silk:  
“There’s only so much we can do.”

---

*Black Market Roses*

there’s a citric   
dew that coats  
& poisons the   
petals of the roses   
I forgot in the   
backseat

your shy hand   
somehow stayed   
firm on my spine   
& with a coy smile,   
a furrowed brow

you opened the   
door to the bitter-   
sweet cold

wash.

I picked the   
bouquet from   
your agape mouth   
then,

& it won’t be the   
thorns that kill —   
it will be your   
dirt-knocked knees

half-lidded   
blossom eyes  
& satellite needs