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Open Poetry #9

November natchez, 1863

H. Arlequin
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since 1999-08-23

Posts 210

0 posted 2000-07-30 09:12 PM

November Natchez, 1863

Spongy homespun suits, sopping, stoneweight,
turgid, seamless serges, saturate,
streaming sodden shelters, scarred swollen shapes
scared to swamp the Mississippi steamships,
stranded soldiers, stockstill side-by-side,
soul-soaked, skin-drenched, scan a listless tide.
Stale smelling stench, unwashed places, social
graces scarce supply, unstirred flesh, miasmal
seepage stuns the senses, ceding the scene
as certain suicide, erasing sights, scents, obscene.
Constant sheeting, slanting sleet, slapping faces
astern the upperclass salon's stewardship of places
snug, serene, secure, captain, shipmates, crew
seeing the seedy misery, with Pilate washed up, too.

--HA

Denise

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since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 2000-07-30 09:18 PM

Definitely book material, H.A.!

Denise

Mike
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since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

2 posted 2000-07-30 09:27 PM

Add a vote. Enjoyed muchly.

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