Kay Bressner Poems

Discarded dictionaries
Coffee cups
drained of energy
Wine bottles
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Passing showers of images
Splashing similes
Landing in little lakes of
Metaphors
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Sunrise, sleepless nights
light
to read
Jasmine tea, macaroni and cheese.
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The westbound county bus
at day's end
in traffic
is slow.
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Sitting on the porch of a warm southern evening
Lavender wisps of clouds breathing
Drifts of Venezuelan tobacco
Wild cats hiding yet
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All the softness in the air
gathered, swept upwards by hope

The light of love, the beauty there
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Tequila rain,
guacamole,
mangos
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Beside the gumbo limbo trees' red bark,
there flourishes a fabulous butterfly garden

Where the pigeon plum grows; I've never
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Who will preserve the
fragile seagrass meadows

From destruction by fertilizer and
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White cloth,
torn flesh and
ripped arteries
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