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View: Aged Storm


sitting pen idle in hand
   eyes glaring beyond lines,
glancing to the elderly man
   on the time-touched lawn chair,
with eyes fixed on the
       freshly planted field,
fixed on the days past,

   the light wans over
into an early spring storm,
    silver streaked white
peers over the rim of the valley,
 leaving ashen streak
    across all it touches,

the sound against virescent tin
   entrancing to the mind,
holding empty pages and
  the ever present black pen,

at the approach of the wind
   the decrepit gentleman rises,
 slow and measured in years,
    gathers the nylon woven lawn chair
and dotage memories
       returning to within rift siding
of an aged farm house,

   here outside the crowed aged rental,
pen lax and memories brief,
    thoughts wander to touch
where the thoughts will be
     when wrinkles dominate
and time depletes
       on a nylon woven chair,

there is a solitary image
    stricken with silver streaks
of droplets and age
     becoming the ink across the page.







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