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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