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Trepidation

Throughout the walls the silence holds
Gazing at green leaves above
Calm breezes stir the canopy
And touch me where I lay below
The penetraion is painful
And I try to shy away
As a horse when approaching fire
And yet, if I try, Watching you
From the outSide tears the peace I feel
For I canlt stand by and watch you
EXPlore
alone
And "'f!OCJIerienWcheat I know you will find.

Bill Cochran

On Christenings

I Used to title poems
Long before I wrote them,
Before the words had stained the page,
TThoecavlelrsei,tsnoowbnl. ood, no heart, no breath

With thOUghts pouched in a
JCerseuastive fetus, I Would name my baby
Before a girl was born.

Nancy Barry