Front Porch at 1:00 a.m. Monday
by marion k. dunn
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______instead of sleeping:
empty wine bottle
reflects the glow from used cigarettes
solitary tea rose incenses my arm
faint sirens call
thin clusters hide dippers in a slow drift
Aaron Neville
crickets
& cicadas
freed from little monsters stuck to red brick
harmonize
instead of sleeping:
reefer rising
in new moon sky
eight foot
cherry lollipops guard four corners
insomniac bird mocks
mechanical lightening bugs
flicker at twenty thousand feet
trimmed hedges protect
blinded shadows
across the street
______instead of sleeping:
can the despairing couple conceive?
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