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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