Cheap reading glasses
10.99 a pair,
two for 16.00
black plastic
specks
enlarge the
world just
enough.
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Treegaping's micropoetry
TreeGapingOpen is the micro poetry moniker for Trish Saunders, a Honolulu-based poet and short fiction writer.
Still Strangers
Each day we leave
at the same time,
our eyes don’t quite meet,
we’re not about to speak, but
our legs march together
in rhythm.
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Revisiting the old house
Years pass,
and the doors sag a little lower,
that’s all.
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Museum for Obsolete Lonely Sounds
Old-fashioned dial tone,
blues singer fading to needle hiss,
train whistle, and the
not-quite silent radio
after the Country K.A.R.L.
sign-off prayer at 3:00 a.m.
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Menacing Night
What craziness takes you out tonight?
Moonlight will hit your car window. Hard.
Crows will rise above the bridge,
turn, look at you.
They are not birds.
Stay.
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Anything can happen
Living on a tropical island,
anything is possible.
A rare wild orchid might
open delicate pink petals
in a patch of dirt
beneath
the freeway.
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The men go walking
At night, the men go walking,
sandal-less
they roar at jokes
with ghostly friends
I don’t mind laughter
but waking to their
cries of grief
is more than I can bear
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Dirge for a Hawaiian crow
The scientists have a bloodlust on them
as merciless as hunters —
They tagged your fragile claws
and caged you, for your own good,
far away from your forests
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The vacant lover
This empty house is aching
with loneliness for you
The sofa sags, the windows
are crusted with dirt —
and you are not here
to see the ginger flowers bloom
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Burning cold
The letters you wrote me
are gone now. Still,
I remember
the envelopes
scorched my hands.
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