April 2011
32 posts
War Games
Those days there were four of us.
Even our parents knew enough not to bother us
when we went off for God knows what
at any odd hour. They knew it’d be the river,
finally, after all day in the woods
out behind the ruined church.
They knew it’d be the river we’d come to,
just to lie in a beached boat, bait a line,
cast and wait, while we all four talked
about what little we knew about all there...
War Games
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Pastoral
On a country road in the front yard
of a modest house, two lawn-chairs stake
a claim on a view to a wood beyond us.
They are there for their owners
and no other: cushions faithful
to absent limbs: side-tables ready
for drinks that will rest on their surfaces.
Ownership is expectation. Homecoming,
inevitable. The imprint of ourselves on things
affirms appearance— not a presage of...
Pastoral
A Sequence
A Sequence
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