Encounter With a Shadow
A poetic reflection on time and shadow.
As the sun shone bright behind me
The girl that I had been
Appeared in slender shadow
As I walked westward home.
False Alarm
The intruder broke security
In the stillness of the dead of night.
The honking cacaphony
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in the middle of the garden,
rooted deep within the soil,
in between robust flowers
sat this one who watched, waited
as the sun drenched them for hours.>
Morning Moon-Light
Moon
In the early dawn hours,
As I looked to the sky
I saw the moon through the trees
Whispering good-bye.
Kickapoo Creek
Kickapoo Creek is bare as bone.
Its bed has cracked.
Its springs have sprung …