Category Archives: Line-a-day Poem

One line per day becomes a long poem after a year!

for his return from nowhere.

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A concert grand, notes, books, wait

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he touched, survive him.

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rooms where he worked, whatever

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Infused by absence,

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still infuses memory.

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even as music lingers,

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Places cry empty,

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a hospital mattress, stripped.

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Glasses by the bed,

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without breath, the balm of voice.

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All absence rings: muted,

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metaphysical.

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not inside walls of cells or

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No haven for thought,

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No sun-blessed glade or bower.

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No cloud-crowned mountain summit.

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No beachside haven.

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to return from or to.

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Absence: Nowhere

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their mastery, unchallenged.

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At least, at this island’s shore,

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to the pelicans.

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grant superiority

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Top heavy, these pines

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leave a morsel for a tern.

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pouch a fish, swallow it whole,

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glide, soar and plunge,

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The two-legged creatures that can’t

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It’s not their ocean:

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