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Jonathan K. Rice

huechera

surrounded by stones of quartz

and broken pottery

near the back gate

chocolate ruffle alumroot's

brown and burgundy leaves

beg rays from morning sun

dew moistens my slippers in the fescue.

coffee cup warms my hands,

steams my glasses as I sip arabica

and enjoy the morning song of finches

 

Deleted Scene

He kissed her
on the eye.

He meant to do that-
to taste her cerulean blue gaze,

To hold her when no one
was looking.

 

Less An Alcove

                    Sentence fragments
climb the brick and mortar
Soft darkness creeps into the niche

becomes escape
                    a non-place

someone reinvents the wheel
and midnight lingers in the oaks

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