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DECHIRICO DREAMS Alienation So stark and pure like a 1950's movie But on the edge of another century Or alone at night in Idaho And everywhere you turn The light is brighter behind you. |
THE EXCHANGE Wanting something Holy from them... Maybe the names of the trees? They ask for money instead- "But only if you use it for booze!" |
first published in The Temple. |
ONE NIGHT A tree exhaled the cloud behind it As moonlight sat on me But all I felt Was the dark. |
NO SOLACE Will the sun shine only to cast dark shadows? Is hope an ember to be stamped out by a fool? There is no solace for a man's small heart. |
ALL THOSE LIVES All those lives never spent with her, glowing like Buddhas' just over the next hill. |
AWAY 20 miles away inching back home in a snowstorm so peaceful we cancel each other out quietly |
(c) copyright Louis Pirro 1997-2001 |