A fresh diagnosis,
waiting to die
Time now unmortgaged,
foreclosure in sight
The documents present,
endorsement unsigned
Appraisal—reprisal,
the path freshly limed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)
The night in riches
my vault again full
The words overflowing
old debts now annulled
The stillness a fortune
its quiet sublime
The meaning unmortgaged
—a poem divine
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
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