1. to beach, with bucket, at tide, harboring ships
2. with pen, at pad, tallying willow’s whirlybirds, falling
3. to puddle, covered, red barely showing through mud
4. with cake, at table, hands full, ear to ear
5. to house, tormented, fallen limb on bed
6. to grass, bumbled upon, forted, tall
7. to asphalt, driven, at face, value scrambled and blood
8. in basement, odorous, tracked, at play, to speed
9. to auto, on seat, vinyl’d, stuck, to sleep
Have breath, must lung, have taste, must mouth,
Have sight, must eye distances to pass
To mark given or taken, moment
Becomes bridge’s span of then to now,
All beams and struts recast
As meld, as blur, as dazzle obscured,
That door, this window, a table closed
To give less and more room to move
A loss that now, then looms demured
To memory’s failing rows hoed
9. to horn, french and flat, belled, muted
8. at pool, with slide and board, languishing white
7. with song, off-key, cited, joyful noise unto
6. in hand, held, quieted, hit, repeatedly
5. at desk, taped, mouth, arms, chest to chair
4. to girl, dreamed, lost, woe, fully miss, remembered
3. to gone, absence brief, held longer
2. to then, again, too present to relay
1. to now, momentarily, fitfully, at bay.
© 2012 – Mark A. Douglas – All Rights Reserved
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