R. H. Peat

In The Chinese Restaurant

Before the meal,
water and green tea are served.
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Forgotten Embroidery (Form: A Stichic)

Your blouse—I have it
right here
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A Shoe Beside The Bed

All night long
with a film on the sills
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Your spirit holds me near in lift and fall
it takes my breath away with each embrace;
In laughing wind and graceful sky we dance
and I'm a clumsy bear within the fog.
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Every Moment Touches

The westward daisies remember the little boy;
he stands by the flaking side of the tan house
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The Note
There is a longing in her remote look
remembering the taste of raspberries,
ripened and red upon her wet tongue.
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A Red Leaf For Lloyd

within a harsh sky
we
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Spirits Terrify
(A Pindaric triad)

1
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YOU

Unseen, watching you;
you sing to yourself.
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Crows In the Snow

All day around this slim wooden box
they have slowly gathered like frail
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Flying Fingers (Ode to the Guitarist)

Soft sounds written in naked sky,
the alphabets of beetles, tiger moths, and
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Perfection

Every oak will lose a leaf to the wind.
Every star-thistle has a thorn.
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Ocean Depths

This tide from the past reappears
in the moment, and the Ocean
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Dead Fish Laughing

Post Op. fried-egg and sliced-ham
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Enigmatic: Dead Polar Bear

I.) The polar-bear is black beneath transparent hair,
each blueberry conceals a pentagon on its bottom,
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A Fawn in Days

The fawn is dead upon the emerald
field where milky narcissus bloom
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Mother's Dark House (A Dirge)

Smooth and white as a neatly quilted bed,
Sheeted silence glistened sheer and pristine;
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Let's Enjoy the Journey:

You stopped me on the tracks;
I slipped on the butter —
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What's Left Behind

All the trips have been made
between the house
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At The Destination:

All the blue sky above the oaks
is too much to hold without wonder.
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