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Jan 2021
This poem will say nothing.
"Clouds snowed in the yard,"
and I record it here,
for reasons unknown even to myself.
The clouds have wine-dark pelts,
but that’s nothing new: skies are hard
to find new lines about. Poets fear
the cliché, try to enjamb around it – won’t help.
What is the jaggy cumulus mouthing
in the upper distance? Coagulating lard,
the snow meets salt, goes gray. Look up, peer
into that distance: skullish hills melt,
discolor into the hue of bruise or welt,
as if even the earth self-flagellates, regards
this day with self-loathing. I’ll change gears:
turned skyward like a telescope,
this poem said nothing.
Revision of a poem from 2007

loose rhyme scheme: ABCDDEFD / ABCDDEFGA
Evan Stephens
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Evan Stephens  44/M/DC
(44/M/DC)   
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       Imran Islam, ju and Kyle Dal Santo
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