rain soaked churchyard
headstone inscriptions
become sharper
Vanessa Proctor
sunlight through storm clouds
a flock of silver gulls
rises with the tide
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twenty-five years
your sapphire ring still sparkles
on my finger
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beach patrol
our captain hands around
homemade muffins
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funeral speeches . . .
all the other lives
of my poet friend
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bedside table
a well-thumbed poetry book
with new annotations
Vanessa Proctor
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