Empty As a Fool

wet, curved hills,
sleet behind my eyes,
watery moss

in unreal green;
all this sucks like love
at my heavy steps,

then the stolen voices
of playing children;
kites that text the sky,

all this part of a story,
a day empty as a fool.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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