Wedding Bells Rang
...Wedding bells rang this
Early evening:
We tossed seed
Into air hued
Lilac by shadow,
Laughing with joy though
Papa, he brooded,
And Mama’s red cheeks
Ran freshets of
Tears, brine for the...
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Categories:
freshets, celebration, sister, wedding,
Form: Acrostic
Meetings
...I shall go to those places
Made holy by people,
People in common, divine from a place,
Back to community.
Back to commemorate
God in a face.
Then when I see
Why we worshipped together,
I sh...
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Categories:
freshets, appreciation, environment,
Form: Lyric
On Emigrating To Iceland After Iraq
...On Emigrating To Iceland After Iraq
Consider first the Alabama heat.
Consider next the toad
still as a turd on this rural bridge
rupture slung across a stream
where offal floats,
where cl...
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Categories:
freshets, war
Form: Free verse