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2006 Sigma Tau Delta Poetry Conference
Oceans
surround you- trees
snake up from dead
swamp
waters Mississippi
frozen waters
Showboat Belle idles by While
many rejoice upon its gracious decks.
All the while, this contented party masks what lies ahead.... Grand
city life as you dig deeper! Sack
& Save, Haden's Hardware and Buick dealerships, ramshackle
houses and gardens gasping for air among Southern beauties. What
a grand place this is! Country
life holds no victims; only hostages. quite
simply, you are a parallel revolution Life
is a never-ending coil With
twists and turns And
you are the one thing that I did not count on. You
are the mistake in the waltz. 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 You
are the messy footprint on starched carpet, You
are the wrinkle on pressed sheets. Your
entrance was not marked By
a calendar day Nor
a smudge in time But
you. Quite
simply in
this parallel revolution, You
are the Earth. Your
smile is the equator Your
eyes are the horizon Your
gaze is the orbit You
are the gravity holding me in place. You
are limitless. As
the sky is to the moon And
the Earth to the sn. And
I am your zodiac in
this parallel
revolution. A
Solitary Blue Lush
green grass- dead
trees wiggle
solemn fingers towards a
blue
blue
sky desperate
roots grasp for life in swampy pools of
desolately clouded water while
tufts of clouds swim slowly
and
forever
in the ocean sky above. How
can anything be so dead and so alive at the same time? Louisiana
earth murmurs soft lullabies singing sweet.
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