David Walker Poet Rhyme

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Abstracts of a July Morning

Abstracts of a July Morning
David J Walker

I
I dreamed about a man selling
The scent of breakfast
He said I could pick the delivery 
Date and time 

And if I dared to imagine 
Imagine an image of my father 

That could replace the cook
And the rest of the fantasy (and breakfast) 
Would be mine

II
The traffic lights glow reveals 
the flow of lost travelers turning
from green to yellow then red
who thought they knew the way 
 
and now no matter what they said
they are moving 
among the absent and dead at the 
cost of a mornings dissolution 


III
What was your birthstone 
who revealed your celebrations 
do you remember the names 

of the strangers who stopped you 
from falling and bathed you in
the fountains of the Holy Water

from a garden hose 

IV
July is duplicitous and part of a
Conspiracy to mute the coolness
Of summer mornings
There will be no 
Weather warnings as
The day lingers into 
Another warm summer evening

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