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On the Levees of Time

ON THE LEVEES OF TIME…
   (APROPOS WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE)

When the levees broke…when the levees broke…
     When the levees broke…
When the levees broke the world awoke
     From a submerged reality
Flowing beneath the bridge over trouble...

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Categories: levees, america, betrayal, conflict, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Flowing Downstream Without Levees Or Windbreaks

some poems ask to be naked
they have no use at all
for punctuation
not even for an en dash 
an em dash nor hyphen

they play with a flowing  grammar
that must be read like water
or paddled through on a leaky canoe

the poet can then hide behind
these unchained...

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Categories: levees, poetry,
Form: Free verse