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TROUBLED THOUGHT

        3AM, I’ve been up since one.  I went to bed at eleven.  Mind wouldn’t still, and so I’m up.  Not a bad dream, just thoughts that won’t leave and I wrest with them now alone.         I smoke a cigar, listen to the night, look out on lawn and street lamped road illumed […]

RIVER’S WHISPER

        He imagined Ozark ridge and valley, trail woven to their sides; ochre dust in plume to steps in change of earth in arrive of summer’s hot and dry; stain of the dust as powdered dye to shoes, socks, and pants’ cuff-low; sound of the wind at top of ridge, silence of the […]