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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 4 – Masters)
Topic: INSOUCIANT (06/02/16)

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• TITLE: Beyond the Fly Zapper | Previous Challenge Entry
  By Bill Price
  06/06/16
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Nestled between a wild boar snagged in an iron trap
And a fox squirrel flattened across double yellow lines
I sigh in my rocker, on our lakeside porch,
And let the poet write – in my mind

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Rhythmic motion
Unhurried
Viewing her sun set quiet
Factual hush
Sorely noiseless
Sucking remnants of remaining hue
Gloom of Day’s expiration
Too soon for summer

Lonely groan of old worn wood
Accompany cricket, loon and frog
Concerto of Insouciant
Opus for one
Written for two
Out of tune
Out of time
In absentia

Who would care if his chair slowed silent too
Who would care
I wouldn’t
Not at all

The alligator barks in the darkened distance
In the darkened lake
Of my darkened view
Dusk beckons
An Invite to swim
Under moonless sky
Stars too far to see
Me
Anymore

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And the poet stopped – or quit
Again
She must be praying – somehow – or remains of prayers she prayed
Still wasting angels on me
She never liked the poet anyhow
Thought he was morose and never used punctuation

Note: If you were here, you could see me stand and point my finger beyond the fly zapper into the night beyond the light of the porch, and hear me
say :

“Well I have a reason to be sad now, Missy.
You’re not here; just one rocking chair moving these days.
But I’ll go to bed,
And yes I know we don’t have gators
But I thought it was a worthy metaphor.
Good night,
Love you.
Did you at least like the wild boar line?”

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