Monday, September 23, 2024

JANA PRIKRYL ~

 



Anonymous


Just in front of the porch steps, on a flat stone

that appears partially tucked under the porch,

a ficus in a clay planter. It produces

strange sounds. The silence that comes dressed

in not the past but conditional tense

may be quietest, it's endured the most.



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Jana Prikryl

No Matter

Tim Duggan Books, 2019