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Spring Spell distance
Skeleton tree withers, "don't say morning's come,
a hunchback in chains don't say it's up to me"
Its ice sheath
shimmers -tori amos, sugar
The day seems brighter.
1. sunset
Children stroke
the weary Iimbs- the sky paints its sunset
Angels of mercy message like a mouth, pulpy
trying vainly to lighten after the punch, red spittle swept
the burden. into the douds.
The acid sting frightens
the tiny heroes. only slice
They must resume him by morning; these wild
The Quest of Things. evenings grow
song--Iullabies to bandage
How is the spell undone? wounds betrayed by an astringent
day.
They say,
"Just you wait" II. sunrise
One yawn the douds are pebbles on a blue
A sigh beach--i have seen them from above,
Or a nonchalant whisper my wings bought, soaring
would let loose without feathers.
a steamy blast.
A fertile breath this empty bed
to sway the frozen branches this blue sweep of sky
like wind chimes.
breaking my heart.
Freda Karas
Veronica Susan Zito
