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Open Poetry #38

[like an ironic spring]

shirtless
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since 2006-04-29

Posts 359

0 posted 2006-07-02 10:06 PM

like an ironic spring
he lies
in the snow
of a hospital bed

beneath his skin
the bones
are shrunken
April ice

and primal wishes –
older than prayers –
swim
in the growing pools
of his eyes

I kiss
the windswept field
of his forehead
with an
“I love you Dad”
and wonder
if he ever noticed
that I always
call him Bob
except
when I’m afraid

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Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2006-07-02 10:17 PM

a tender personal moment
allowing yourself to let down
any wall of pretense

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