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Winter/Spring 2018

Threnody for Camilla

 

by Richard King Perkins II

 

I can feel the presence of your will
the warmth of your distant sounds

in the place where you’ve gone
to be;

a house in the high mist

quiet cobblestone pathways
slowly winding
between temples and colonnades

the taste of wine from the moon-tree.

All the wonders of the unseeable world.

And here I remain.
The dreamer who falls in dreams
and lives on as a whistling sigh;

the sound of swatting flies
on a solid chair in an abstract room.

 

[Check out Richard’s back porch wisdom]

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