Aaron Brown

The smoke-tainted wind
brushes graceful fingers
through skeletons of leaves,
discussing the night in whispers
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January's frozen breath
chilled February's dreams.
March's steady thaw
soothed April's little fears.
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Midnight‚
My forest of dreams...
Movement all around
But only in sound,
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When the poet set out to capture poems,
building cages of paper and ink,
shouted she in vain at reluctant words
to come lay down within them.
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ashes and snow
drifting in soft and low,
falling ever so end over end
drawn over the foreground,
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Flitting amid the bright lanterns
of stars in a winedark sky
is a way to live and be
for backyard moths and I —
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She stands behind me
in everything that I do;
while I live worlds away
she waits for me to come back to her.
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taking the victory, let none escape
ensuring no vengeance takes shape
through murder, pillage and rape
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Fear has strength. It grips,
squeezing away the breath of dreams,
crushing the faith of heroes down in
the depths of memory's heart.
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Raisin
Wrinkled morsel
Formerly plump round grape
Sun-dried, shriveled, concentrated
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Exit
here said the sign
for Central Avenue.
But I knew it led to nowhere.
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When the future had no past
The Eternal stretched wide
Wings of imagination
Against the chaos of a moment
...

see

two facing mirrors
each an infinity within
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Hearts heavy with shadows
cast aside by dreams of light,
mourners retreat in stippled dark
and the news shades the grey between.
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I ride the latebound train tonight
alone in my car but for shadows
slouching down in far corners
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Take from me;
make of me
what you will.
But write my script
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The moon rises above the city
through an endless cycle of days.

Watching
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Down by the sea -
You and me.
Listening to gulls cry -
Watching waves birth and die.
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If I would see the Darkness,
I have but to close my eyes

Behind this shield, in sight of dreams
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I bask in the warm glow
from the cascading torrents
of captured summer sunlight
framing these ice-blue
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