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Four Ten

  

     

Slow melting snow

Exposes piles of month old

Deer shit

Dead mice and dead brown oats

Cast offs 

Of winter’s careless wake

Exposed to the sun

That sits higher in the sky

Plans revealed

Like lines on your hands

Fortunes and fates

Gods and flaws.

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4*9

  

The ache in your hands

Will not go away

Arthritic joints 

Crumbling cartilage

Stumbling through days

Years ago you were a flame

Meteoric 

Euphoric

A dark star

Slipping behind the shadow

Of a moon waxed full

Awake with the knowledge

That love was made of gravity

Awake with the fear

That comes to us all

Slick with sweat

Alone in the night

Aware that the promise

Was in the ending.

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Fore Ate

  

Fore Ate

The walls are close

Rough to the touch

Familiar friends

I can talk to again

The cot creaks 

As I rise reluctant

Or lay down exhausted

A single light extinguished

Without my say.

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Four Seven

  

Four Seven

Your stomach churns

With the questions

Where are they?

What happened?

How?

Why?

Clouds obscure the sun

Rains come and never cease

Hope is a paralytic

We long for the grief

To move on.

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Four Six

  

Four Six

Ice out in the swamp

Open water

A chorus of frogs

Telltale signs 

Of a tardy springs’

Welcome arrival.

The dirt stained snow

In the front yard

Hangs on like

Lint upon a black jacket

Unwanted

Tenacious.

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