Charles Rossiter Poems

Winding streamside along US 64
into the Sangre de Cristos
the sky lined with pine tips
along the mountain's edge
...

is Sylvan,
is the bookstore
at the crossroads of Sylvan
and empty fields
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57.
On a gray day like this
the lake's all wind and waves,
a perfect backdrop
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Globs of candle wax drippings on top,
faded dry wood that needs oiling,
but it's still in tune, at least with itself
or nearly so, after 18 years
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