This Poem was Submitted By: Doris C. Swearingen On Date: 2000-05-20 07:08:11 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Tranquilized

A bottle is no place to observe the beginning of Spring. The brown glass distorts. Its curved surface makes the long  climb out impossible. A forsythia's mustard cascade fades in alcoholic haze. Jacob's ladder swings just beyond my reach. This bottle-neck is too narrow for my groping hand. I drown in the brown nectar of where I am.

Copyright © May 2000 Doris C. Swearingen


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