You would think they would fix the formatting for poetry so that it could be moved away from the left margin…no. Concept foreign…..
Enjoy!
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Windfall….
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I wanted something of morning
To hold in my hand
And there were small plums,
Underfoot, all over the yard
.
Filled with morning’s warmth
The promise of sweetness
More than sweetness itself,
A kiss, rather than the feast
it could be to lie
in the bread-warm arms
Of a lover
.
While morning steals away
To its autumnal distance,– that freize
Of centurion trees, the glowing hands
of wide spinning leaves
and then honeyed light
over the head of a girl
in a red sweater
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More plums, please. I shake the tree
for the fruit I am eager to eat,
the celluloid ribbon of old fears
falls away–
.
I had been trying to cut out
The sadness there, edit
The film that too starkly
shows forth a life
When flavor burst in my mouth
And the o of delight
That lives at the back of my throat
Pierced the air.
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Loquaciously Yours 
Enjoyed the poem, expecially “bread warm arms of a lover”; “While morning steals away/To its autumnal distance”; and “When flavor burst in my mouth/ And the o of delight/ That lives at the back of my throat/ Pierced the air.”
I, too, enjoyed this, and I’m on my second reading of it. (I also put it on Twitter. I want more people to see your work.)
Some of the many lines I like: “celluloid ribbon of old fears”, “the o of delight/ That lives at the back of my throat”; “bread-warm arms of a lover”; “glowing hands of the wide spinning leaves”. Evocative imagery and lyricism, which I’ve come to think of as your hallmarks.
I don’t know how to indent on WordPress but one way you can indent on Blogger is to use as many times as you want an indent. It’s not ideal but it works.
Like the look of this template, too.
Thanks for info, comment and tweeting me! xxxxxj
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