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For Now

Frank C. Praeger

Cached, embattled, cradled
among fallen timber, mushrooms, trillium,
tossed out legacies,
truant to yesterday’s promises.
Today tattletales reign,
untidy,
faces dinged.
A patron, too, I do not slight,
wave off as too ephemeral.
Were elephants ever contrite?
Then, to have been tracked down by a coyote,
now, no home,
not around the corner past the fallen trees,
the rotting vegetables in the untended garden,
and that autumnal amber light,
and those missing
that once completed my life.
Should I bark, should the moon pause, tides vanish?
A loss least looked for.

No one has watched,

not even crows.

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