Roy Kelly

Siftings

issue 30 January 2016

And we awake like children to tiny snow sprinkled

on shed and car roofs, thinking, Will it last,

will it last. The roads already damply black.

 

Nevermindfulnesss

Contemplating truth and time, the face in the hairdresser’s mirror for twenty minutes or more, seeing while attempting not to.

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