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Open Poetry #46

[I visit / my mother]

shirtless
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since 2006-04-29

Posts 359

0 posted 2010-04-11 11:41 PM

I visit
my mother
and fold my body
like a letter
to slip it
into the envelope
of my boyhood bed

birds and light
were the alarm clocks
of my childhood

now
I awake
in the darkness
where memories
jostle for position
like unalphabetized obituaries

my mother makes an early breakfast
and I drive home
to find my son
still sleeping

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steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

1 posted 2010-04-12 11:05 AM

wow...another gem...I just love this stanza:

"now
I awake
in the darkness
where memories
jostle for position
like unalphabetized obituaries"

I love the way your words introduce themselves as visuals...nicely done

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