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American Summer
Poems written while traveling.
Orchid in a Living Room in Carmel
Stars linger with muted cornets. Sea birds, science, milk running down her breast in white key arpeggios; white chords. Nine hooded travelers on a thin, black stem sitting back to back to back... Candles, sunrise minarets; a hybrid jazz rises like the moon on a lake. Something gathers at her throat— her eye teeth swell and sparkle. Tide drifting in. Drifting in the moist and alluring blush the white goes to yellow, the yellow bleeding magenta bands. Pale, listless predator, caught in our headlights. Her prey stunned, taken by his own longing—he sees a single pew of white angels, green dog sleeping at their feet. back | ToC | next
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