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r
Poems
Oct 2014
detail
a learning experience
- the detailed
timing and precision
- a certain etiquette
in the rise and fall
of hands and feet
i learned the walk
- mirrored on the toe
of a spit-shined boot
shooting imaginary doves
in white gloves -
the proper fold
of the cloth
- tight and taught
with stars above
the tri-fold - not
a trifling thing we're told
the color of a mother's tears
and grip of a father's grief -
the why in the cry of a child
- sad song of the bugler
on a windswept hill
standing in the detail.
r ~ 10/29/14
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