The Present Revived

Released from the prison
Of the extended word
Verse offered 
Asylum
And a means of escape

Carrying me deep 
To where the future-past  
Hides
All time to mislead
 —as the present conflates

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2015)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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