Camouflage


Our hiking boots have red laces.
Mine, because I want to look young.
Yours, because you are an artist
making a statement against the
browns the greens the grays.

We crunch large leaves together,
leave jagged mosaics behind
to be blown…

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Two Poems







The Beachcomber Pleads the Platonic to His Wife




Swear I’d only kissed
her hand in friendship –
white wine cooling my
lips on her pale wrist,
luminous as pearls,
her laugh shy, softly
sweet, and nostalgic
for what…

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