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They are in sight of
each step taken
on patterned bricks
of patterned paths clean
and free of littering growth.
The world begins
when eyes are opened
and ends when closed
in sun or shade
or in the cold and leveling night.
Each and one the wild
black bears cane back,
and because they came
I should have guided it
to you walking hand-in-hand
out the coppiced lane.
Too bad, so to speak
with four eyes to see
what might be seen
...what is or what is not!
The long necked bird
plucks and warms its
wings and so eyeing
takes flight out across
the burning cold lake
seeing new
and sightless shores.
Ave Maria, Florida
January 12, 2010
East Lansing Series
©2010 Avatar — Joseph W. Yarbrough
Reproduction prohibited without written permission.
each step taken
on patterned bricks
of patterned paths clean
and free of littering growth.
The world begins
when eyes are opened
and ends when closed
in sun or shade
or in the cold and leveling night.
Each and one the wild
black bears cane back,
and because they came
I should have guided it
to you walking hand-in-hand
out the coppiced lane.
Too bad, so to speak
with four eyes to see
what might be seen
...what is or what is not!
The long necked bird
plucks and warms its
wings and so eyeing
takes flight out across
the burning cold lake
seeing new
and sightless shores.
Ave Maria, Florida
January 12, 2010
East Lansing Series
©2010 Avatar — Joseph W. Yarbrough
Reproduction prohibited without written permission.