Short Girders Poems

ginkgo
a mental spur
from a Chinese tree with
fan-shaped leaves that makes tea and thought
girders....

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Skyfall

Big massive piling machine hammers thumps huge steel 
iron girders into evil rancid ground. Tree spiralling behemoth rams 
dead tree stumps into bare earth to hold up falling cracked sky. 
Without them we’d be crushed dead. Empty heavy sky forces on me, us....

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Wolves howl at the moon shining over the ridge
Golden light glancing off the silver steel girders,
Slithers of squiggly speckles ripple in the stream
After the trotline is suspended between buoys
The night fishermen play five-card stud poker,
And swap tall tales about their youthful follies.

written October 31, 2021...

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Walking way out on the lake
  atop a cement-block pier
Waves lap at its sturdy girders
  fish swim up to the surface, so near

Tiny specks below the horizon
  boats sail near a shore far away
The water looks cold and foreboding
  diminished light at the end of the day

Fresh winds spring up, the sun dials down
  my jacket's pulled tight next my frame
A sliver of a pale moon rises
  Will tomorrow be just the same...

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Desertion

the wind whispers “lonely” 
at the roller coaster pier
where happy screams of delight fright
still haunt the atmosphere

the rust moans “empty”
on a deserted Ferris Wheel
where lovers sought the height of night
now only girders squeal

the sky speaks in thunder
above the amusement park
a place where children’s laughs of glee
echo in cold and dark

10/30/17

The Sounds of the Past
Eve Roper, Sponsor...

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