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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Environment · #1254906
In life we all become distracted or overwhelmed or stressed-read it slowly and carefully.
In a slanting gaze
the sun warm with

embracing fingers
skewed indifferently
across the wet brow
of a traveler, lost in
mind and thought
and direction

His eyes looked up
through cotton trees
filtering the embrace
from above—in this
distraction the lark did
advantage with a sweep-
ing loop, faithless, at the
wanderer’s glance

His eyes then danced in
aim of this flight, erratic
with jovial carelessness,
as it went adjacent the sun.
He resulting-ly shielded
his eyes but never looked away:
in doing so he fell off the face of the earth and splattered

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