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Shadows #2

Andrew H. Oerke

Shadows are like the clowns on the Champs Elysée who stalk-walk
in your footsteps a traipse at a time behind till crowds
in sidewalk cafés laugh so sniggly at you that
you whirl around but the clown has ducked into a patch
of sunlight like shadows disappearing at high noon,
only when shadows shadow us no one’s laughing.

Faithful as Fido, devoted as Spot, shadows
and their imaginary tongues tease our themes at some
gluesome distance, though closer than echoes, as we tether together
hand in hand into the mirror-smooth water of the past.

Shadows will haunt you for as long as you live.
They are a custom-tailored tuxedo-shaped precipice
into which you never want to fall or at last
the shade will hug you to death in the long lonesome valley
from whose bourne no traveler returns says Uncle Willy
and who’s to say “I don’t think so” to the great bard of Avon?

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