Issue Three Poetry
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Mornings & Evenings After Retirement 退休後的晨昏
April 19, 2021 |
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Unlike ripples fading away,
old dreams can’t be kept at bay.
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The Price of a White Coat
April 19, 2021 |
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More than living. You know, our life. The path is not straight.
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Kitchen Communion
April 19, 2021 |
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Dishes are done and there is quiet.
Trading my phone for stillness, I
Pour half a glass of red in an old jam jar.
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Sawhorses
April 19, 2021 |
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You should know this house is
my mother’s; be mad at her; maybe
visit her at Parkview Clinic
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Waiting Room
April 19, 2021 |
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There are poems I intend to write
That land on the purgatorial backburner
Never to be revisited
Because the poem was conceived
In a distinct and fleeting moment.