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by ~Quelythe, Sep 26, 2011, 2:19:03 PM
Literature / Poetry / Human Nature / Free Verse

to Yellow Plum (in blue
china bowl):


     afternoon's slit of sun slips
     between thick curtains
     & woos you to ripeness.

     it chooses you
     not for flecks of honey-russet
     held low in your seam of shadows,
     nor your symmetry & swell;
     but because

     you slink in shade, sink
     behind green pear & clementine

     & cannot hide
     from each spear of light
     that ricochets
     through--

even now
     nested warm
     against these lips

     even now:
     a tea-stain stone
     hugging close
     the trashbin floor.

Still find it hard to believe that came out of me. I'm grateful too, that it was noticed.

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These days I am closerThese days I am closer to the place--
the place
I've wanted to remember
for years. These days
I can sometimes smell
the salt of the sea
without trying.

I catch a glimpse of a small girl,
a blonde pixie cut;
I catch a glimpse of her white slip
and feel the cool and life-filled chill
of early morning biting
her legs.
I see a window overlooking the bustling
downtown street below.

In the quiet of morning
in this stillness of time
I am closeThese days I am closer by ~Quelythe

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Losing chessI.

then I am left with the king:
the plastic clicks as he thuds back and forth
and the pawn
who can only look forward
is still stuck

then I must decide:
the quick and painless way
into the pocket of white guards ahead,
or should I instead keep running
in frantic circles,
tighter and tighter?

I see triumph in your eyes and instead I--
lost in the web
of strategies I will never know
losing a game I've never known how to win

I call defeat

II.

there is a metaphor there
somewhere
and something about life

and the other people
who knowLosing chess by ~Quelythe

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Lonelinessbeneath scaffolds

it is hard
for a city to sag

from afar
you never see the pigeons flee

& when a city can offer
such warmth
there is no excuse
to leave
holding only a question

from years ago

& when
the words have gone
rubbed blank
by too many
lingering thumbs

it is hard
to trust what is left:

a pressing gust

the smallness of a voice
across the still
evening waterLoneliness by ~Quelythe

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Necessitiesthe line dips again
into the foaming wake, its feathered hooks
spooning mackerel

already thin trails of feces
streak their white bellies
they lunge for freedom but
soon can only gulp
& twitch

is it wrong
to look away?

there, the high sun, there a gull
circling above;
there, the racers, their white sails
flecks
on the horizon

& for a moment
at my feet
death shudders

it is wrong
to look away Necessities by ~Quelythe

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I'd only stopped by to thank you for including Alzheimer's in your

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