pecan husks
around the makeshift grave:
cool sunlight
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MORE FROM THIS POET: A selection of my micropoetry!
- the Maya >
One slip of the tongue
and the spirit will wane;
the Maya spoke of this, too. . .
Each symbol flows in unison,
awakening me harshly
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- late night jazz >
late night jazz . . .
a drunken cricket stumbles
at mid tempo
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- sempiternal >
sempiternal
rain drops on the pear blossoms;
early morning
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- still pacing >
almost hearing Dad’s voice
hurrying to keep
the house together . . .
two years since
and still pacing
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- epiphany >
our cigarettes
in the dark countryside;
lightning bugs dance
the epiphany of
a new memory, closer
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- autumnal >
autumnal;
a cricket’s last song rising
from the grass
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