Sandra McPherson
1943—2024
daydreaming w/ Bob Arnold
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