Rebekah Gamble Poems

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21.
Simple Happiness

This is all I need,
right here.
Cold stable chair,
cold smooth table,
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22.
The Hardest Choice

I hate all of this.
You show me
what I never knew, never understood.
Tell me,
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23.
They

They believed in color
and burning candles
with flames dancing
on ceilings like skies.
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24.
The Shadow Considers Truth

I had a silent conversation
with the shadow of a statue.
It questioned me with very forgettable words
and I told it 'I like both Rilke and Neruda.'
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25.
On Music (Glorious Drowning)

I close my eyes so it can fill me.
It flows through my nostrils,
pleasantly drowning me.
It is for me the executioner.
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26.
Walking Away From Me

In walking down a beaten dirt road
I felt as though the world were turning
away from me, beneath me in a circle,
to keep me searching.
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27.
I Do Not Respond

The people live in eternal night,
so when the sun goes to bed,
they don't always realize that it is dark.
The streetlight is lonely tonight.
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28.
Father's Funeral Services

Poetry died with my father.
His death marked my first time in a Catholic church.
I remember the man nailed up high,
looking more like a beaten homeless man
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29.
So I Am Calm In Wondering

Inside me, there is fire.
I know this, because I remember it.
I used to believe in things.
It is cold as I sit out the night on my doorstep.
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30.
In Night, I Find I Am Foreign

At dusk, I hate the locusts
that make the sound
like the darkness is laughing.
It is not good
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