https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/section-149-old-dmv-poetry Poetry won't be seen until published. Suggestion: Set publication date to creation date when you go to publish it. (It'll make more sense when you click the publish button.) en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:33:37 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3081-bee-balm-and-cool-water https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3081-bee-balm-and-cool-water This reflex I must break -walking down the path to the spring -a sudden twingedeep, low in my belly.I place my handon the spot just above. A scarlet patch of bee-balmblooms among the rocks.All the flowersI planted this spring,have withered, died,yet color appears herewhere there was nothingbefore. A benediction breezestirs through the field.Red petals, curled thin,float down to the water,swirl into the current,then wash away.The season,the flowers,the water,my baby ... gone TriOak Old DMV Poetry Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:24:51 GMT /section-149-old-dmv-poetry#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/3081 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/3081 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3081 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3078-7-grade https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3078-7-grade 7% grade aheadsays the sign.Even so, I am unprepared. A little too fast over the crest,the car floats one sickening secondthen descendsdown all that steep blacktop. I am horizon for a momentValley spread below melaid out patchwork ofabandoned grey farmhousesfallow fields, left over storesbacklit by a stray shot of winter sunshine I fall from the horizonquietly merge into the landscapewhile a grey cloudsmudges the sun Down into town, there are more churches,less hope. At the ski area they are making snowas if even the weather has given up. I stop by the farm ... more TriOak Old DMV Poetry Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:05:02 GMT /section-149-old-dmv-poetry#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/3078 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/3078 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3078