turn it over tenderly

turn it over tenderly

shhhh   shhh   shh

look at this a  minute

see look how it’s dark

see how it’s dark here

how it curves how it’s

hard to see look at it

look at it lookit this,

man, I’m tellin ya true:

sure as shit it’s hardly

even here this minute

Photo by Andrew Kliatskyi on Unsplash

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Ron. Lavalette lives on the Canadian border in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. His debut chapbook, Fallen Away, from Finishing Line Press, is now available at all standard outlets. In addition, more than 400 of his creations (poetry and short prose) have appeared in journals, reviews, and anthologies ranging alphabetically from Able Muse and the Anthology of New England Poets through the World Haiku Review. A reasonable sample of his published work can be viewed at EGGS OVER TOKYO: http://eggsovertokyo.blogspot.com and he blogs daily at Scrambled, Not Fried.