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Apr/May 2000 Poetry

Drizzle

by Francis Raven


 

Drizzle

Rain bounces between
yellow veins of roads
becoming twine
in an old lady's hands.

she wrinkles her pulse
for what is tied together
are islands; memories of the last word
in a sentence that never came home.

 

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