The Water-Bucket
Night leaks from the water-bucket,
it flows onto bedraggled phlox.
The black water is full,
I cannot even see the bucket.
The moon floats
as a lily pad in the blackness.
The purple phlox spills
drowning into dawn light.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2019
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