Penny
...center>I unearth a penny coin,
oxidated,
a green coat of verdigris.
Numbers reveal,
an age,
one that is decades away
from its mint condition.
I am part of the earth now,
unpolished
gold ...
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Categories:
oxidated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Perch
...It isn't long before I begin to realize
how even from the beginning
the eyes seek out distances,
the weightlessness within the stride,
the satellite built in memory
that almost leaves me to part from...
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Categories:
oxidated, age, freedom, life, loss,
Form: Free verse