Seasonal Dance
...The summer has thickened,
it has turned the hare into a dervish,
the raccoon to a pantomime villain,
made mice sing in the beaks of owls.
The woods are bare now
trees rattle, grackles cackle,
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Categories:
fanlight, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Find
...She was a barn find,
her figure painted on the bare cedar plank wall
below a fanlight.
The sun over decades had turned her into a phantom,
a patina parboiled into the timbers.
Her painted colo...
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Categories:
fanlight, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dawn Awakening
...Awoken from fitful sleep, too uncomfortable to resume
Stifling heat prevailing one morning in early June
Through dawn's weakly strained golden haze
Fresh air my lungs desperately craved
To reach ...
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Categories:
fanlight, inspirational, june,
Form: Free verse