[When you live under the mountain]
When you live under the mountain
you do not see the mountain.
What mountain, you ask,
stirring your tea,
as your visitor falls silent
before the clouds.
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Recruits: Fort Riley, Kansas
Every night they lose at poker to older
men, who know what to do with their faces.
.
In the Adirondack Chair
Looking the other way as
something flutters beside me in the wind,
I realize
I can't tell pages from wings.
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Perfection
The chameleon on the window vanished
without seeming to move. So are we
looking through the chameleon now
as we gaze across the pasture?
--Lola Haskins