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Poems by S.R. Compton

 

An Open Book

A desperate stillness
Is the most productive medium.
Then a random object -
A toadstool or a paperweight.
Finally, a shaft of sunlight,
A falling, as of towns,
Air cut like ice.

 

 

Alice

Leave your clothes behind.
Forget the roots of trees.
Drink me.
Remember what you will find.

 

 

Untitled

in the dark
write
with light
and lithium
backward
forward
into the light
or the dark

 

 

Fallen Leaves on Water

let the river carry the boats
of the dead
wherever the dead go-
they will come back
as dust under our feet,
as rain

 

 

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