John Svehla Poems

Click here to listen to "Rose Hills" On blistered white
rose hills shotgun prairie fire
burns the breeze along a blue horizon
of memory's distance bone sand
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Click here to listen to "Leaf Crabs" A puff of wind
foaming summer bees into the long grass
of a knotted dry dock leaf crabs ride
white sea horses
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Click here to listen to "Ships" Yellow bent harbors
drink in ships iron butterflies
fly into the
glass breeze sunburnt islands
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Click here to listen to "A Jar World" Red iron mills
the embroidered sky
over seeds of white onions
under the ice of fallen trees
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Click here to listen to "Noon Violets" Noon violets
blow in with
the wind southeast summers
fly away the armor of the jetty
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