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Charles F. Thielman

Warm-hearted, Visioned, globally-knowledgeable, oft-published Poet and Grandfather for 6 free spirits!

About Me

Raised in Charleston, S.C., and Chicago, educated at red-bricked universities and on city streets, I have enjoyed working as a social worker, truck driver, city bus driver and enthused bookstore clerk. Married on a Kauai beach in 2011, a loving Grandfather for 6 ! free spirits, my work as an oft-published Poet and shareholder in an independent Bookstore’s collective continues! A video of my reading at Tsunami Books [Eugene, Oregon] = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-5-G_jaoJY

Just google my name to read several more of my poems.

Jazz de Opus, Portland

Carrying spurs of transit staccato, I retreat to here from driving city bus, yellow brake-squeal turns, ear-drum lanced.

Hair-trigger sidewalks prepped for war, lined with saplings.

I retreat through thick wood doors, long fingers thrumming bass, blued drinks slaking August throats.

My lists of angry speeches left to simmer as guitar ignites a fire, piano smoking. My back relaxing into the sways of this good time crowd full of color.

A tall jazz woman broils a love song and spoons it out, musk sauce brushed into marrow. All of us down for this cool balm, spooning jazz across our full canvas, straight from soul onto scotch burning ice.

O, she throws her full indigo song into the rhythm-thrummed floor, fingers snapping all here, all here,

and the specific names of trees ease into murals of shade, into murals of our children

holding their arms out, waiting for doves.

My Jazz Story

I was first exposed to jazz as a young Poet.