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Written: April 14, 2025  for contest sponsored by Brian Strand

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The subject matter of this poem explores themes of transience, intersection of life and death, and the fragile coexistence of human and natural worlds.

a loaf of discounted bread 
             stale & crumbly
resides in a brown paper bag 
    teetering
         on a park bench

a finger of cool breath

_____nudges
____________the
________________bag
___________________towards

ground

      pile of used cigarettes
  gathered by
a trash
can
&
an
array
  of greasy
      fast food, styrofoam cups

                          a souring banana milkshake
                                              punctured through
                                                    ---a rotting apple
                                                                          core
                                                                                &
                                                                            an
                                                          assemblage
                                          of stale and wizened
                            McDonald's medium fries


family of pigeons
        peck at brown paper
                                  bag--
              it topples over &
         spills its guts
    across 
grass

a swan watches from a pond
                                           --eyes peer--
                         from its snowy face
         water cushions every ounce
      of its body
  caresses every single
feather

sky is a petri-dish 
        c r a m m e d 
              with scarlet c l o u d s 

a young girl falls
               as her size four sneaker
                  is caught
                     on a hidden tree root
                        swan chuckles
                             to itself
                             a college student bites
                        into a decorated
                     hot dog
                 condiments slip
his button-down
      shirt &
a swan extends its wings
a platform for sun
as droplets of
crystalline water
sparkle off surface
of each

feather
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