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Monday, May 26, 2014

Autumn lines




Autumn lines 


In the autumn pond, plane tree leaves
form a brown, green, molding quilt.
Quick skate bugs, instrumenting off
key the mean at some distance,
Keats’s quotation marks.

On the flat varnished surface
cats paws pull up, echoed off
the coast, wailing skyward--
means bug out, sure indented
water again, reflected sky.


(First versions 2 September 2006. Revised 6 May 20014, a rainy autumnal day)


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