my father has been gone exactly a year today and the memories of his dying taste like chalk on a parched tongue… but the memories of his living smell like mountain trout, burnt cream puffs, chlorine of pool where he saved me from drowning.
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A quadrille of forty-four words linked to dVerse poets.
A Somonka consisting of 2 tankas of statement/response on love theme.
fear and dread well up alone in my darkest hour enemies approach i cannot feel your presence God, have you forsaken me? no, my child, I’m here sweating drops of my own blood i know your deep pain settle your heart in silence love holds you in stone garden
i painted our basement a lucious “oyster shoal” such neutral hue embued between cloud and coal idyllic muted color match to old grey mare’s fair foal if i fall into a swoon, know the fumes have taken toll as paint chip covers wall in opalescent oyster shoal!
Inspired by Sarah’s “colours” prompt at dVersewhich fit with my latest home project.
A quadrille of 44 words on theme of “paper” linked to dVerse Poets
it’s world poetry day but you probably won’t read it in the newspapers poems aren’t news any- more than recipes are novels but why not? publish a peace poem on front page of today’s issue with bold print, yell “extra, read all about it!”
a poem in my pocket 
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