Sunset--February, 2003

Sunset-February, 2003

(epigram in italics Just before the bombing began)

The leafless trees
on the far shore
of her frozen lake
stand in rows like
soldiers on review.

She remembers a guitar
player, painter of pictures
whose deferment
ran out-- He left her
that June with a bouquet
of promises
that finally fell lifeless
from their stems.

Again-- the trees
across the lake
cast long dark
shadows
toward the East.


Lindy Leedy Schneider

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