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No Where Now

No (where) Now

         I don't want to write about it
         but my pen keeps circling
         hungry near the wounded
         hidden tall grass metaphor of decay 
         any small movement snaps
         the bowstring free
         lies like arrows arc across
         the fallen trees
         iambic missing everything

         the zero that I'm seeing
         moon there just rising
         Sarah's
         looks down full not smiling
         poetry stops when the living get too close
         I've lost my bag of sins
         signed off the last appraisal
         I've nowhere left to be
         silence locks each metered word
         third stanza just for you
         easy to rewrite the first
         not so much the view

                                                  (homage to S.T.)

Copyright © Paul Trimble

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