Sunday, December 4, 2016

Seventeen

pictures of songs fell in my lap
from an old manila folder,

drifting fall leaves
fighting gravity,

scattered in pant folds,
across the pine floor.

in the corner of my eye
a small bird escapes summer

stares curiously from the maple rail
of my second-story bunk,

yellow wings stretching time,
blurring forgotten wrongs.

semaphore tail to balance present
on present against the final future.

evermore or nevermore?

an unlikely question from a songbird.

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