The Innisfree Poetry Journal
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by Janice D. Soderling



Vita brevis


A flustering of motion in the greenery,

the eloquence of August,
a rising of the heart, unseemly,
as we walk (two elegant contraptions
of muscle, skin and bone) toward evening
and the practiced codes of bed.
Sweet little death.




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