From A Tone Poem of Stones, Finishing Line Press, publication date August 29. The press offers free shipping on pre-publication orders.
What Wish Must I Have Wished
Upon What Flower or Jag of Rock?
Although my past, mistakes, clung to me
the way beggar’s lice furs
the hunting hounds of autumn,
you never minded. I did not know
you understood, could not bear to have you
ever think of me the way I am, prone
to stray and roam by night
the fields of easy yield and ripened fullness.
For I have been as one who wallows
in a yellow dust that fails to cleanse
the soul. O, what regret and loss I feel
each time I cross the millrace
and see your lily face among ten thousand
floating pads, Ophelia.
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Stephen Michael Holt
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