E Mail to Damniso Lopez #168

Painting by Josephine Wall


E MAIL TO DAMNISO LOPEZ 168

Those moments
At the card table,
At the bank tellers window,
At Juliets window,

The day
The alternate route taken,

The Sunday of taxonomy
And ellipsis,

The time of
Wrecks and windowpanes

Could upon
Their sputter and passing

Could be said
To be hallucinations,

But it was the words
In the chronicle I kept that made

The moments news
And real,

Although something else,
More than likely,
Similar or different
Actually happened.


Duane Locke

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