Best Modulations Poems

in love with a shadow
with the ghost of you
the whisper of your voice
feeling like a warm caress



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on August 11, 2021 for contest A BRIAN STRAND 4 OR 5 LINE POETRY contest sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 1ST

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The camera inside the picture
concertina's time-lines into exclamation points.
Antique tripods brace themselves,
their quaint brass fittings
help minds to adjust.

Some turn a grooved infinity sprocket.
Some cave paint on the arching
bones of elk heads.

If we are to discover what is out there
we must board a ghost train,
plot a...

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Something about loose lips and loose women,
old young recollections
some too dark for conversation,
some too light for
a poetry reading.

Your face is disfigured;
when I open your page,
greying origami birds
fly out of your story
beaks carrying
lint and gilings, but something else,
a partial picture of what we left in each...

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