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riley minteer Oct 2019
wine print on neutral veronese,
some drink to live,
some live to drink

i spent a lowly year "out back"
high up in the Adirondacks
i spent a couple grand and change
lay a lady lay again...

here lies conquer with no-seq
ne vis plus, prefaced as con
harboring the depth of write
just to overcome the wrongs
always drone as rhythm does

pin and doily on the water
mag-a-nolia, Julian, golden
life of old and orchards open
send a silhouette to the cabin door...

happy getting older, broaden
road and carriage,
stock and bale
bail and stalk
walk o’er hill
neatly seated at heron
seated on the bench i stole
i knitted up the overgrowth
and lay i shall think of the olds
of plum-stained linens from the gods,
rags and gore,
pale blue bones
the modern peril is destination and fortified knowns.
-riley minteer
“the overgrowth”
(from “standing in two gardens”)
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Ann Pedone Jul 2020
and
again the
mag
nolia
of your
tongue
seeks
out the
center
(of me)
this
cavern
insatiate
promis
cuous
as the
dawn

— The End —