A Song Where I Belong

Inspired by Maxfield Parish’s “The Dinky Bird”  On the clouds   Of fruit-filled dreams I dream   Of castles      And fairy tales  One ladder   Each step—      A movement in time  Falling along a road   Looking at the skyEach kiss a melody—   The words, a broken cord  Time protected   In knotsAnd fortress walls   …

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Returning Through the Blue Manhattan Streets When Evening Dies

Abandoned streets Reveal a city’s state From each I see Reflected light in clouds The path I take Shows lights in neon red From each a hill Above the midnight crowds The birds are gone Departed sunset winds A new moon came Between the wind-blown …

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A Country Road

The moon has shadowed me, like stillborn air Along a country road, adrift in threads, Behind a worn out wheel, the pedals bare, As time leaves nothing here but cast off dead. I share these words with clouds in wind-washed treads, Where rock-strewn shores in …

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