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mosquitoes awaiting life

Jack Henry

she said she loved me but i wonder
as i stand in a courtyard surrounded
by tall trees and golden flowers
music drifts languid and dry
through hedgerow sentinels

water falls cool into timid pools
yellow and orange fish peck at thick pockets of mosquitoes awaiting life
birds sing high atop twisted branches
i stutter as i speak when no one’s around

memories tear at my throat,
black blood splatters atop
white rocks and i am unbound
of my mortality
springtime blooms, purple,
red, and pink –
i taste coils of sorrow burn bright
down my spine & yesterday hums forgiveness

icy finger touch pushes me
back through gray sky floating
and i see a thousand
incantations of spontaneous defeat
words cannot sound in a vacuum
desert playground, just as life
cannot linger on a field
no longer known

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