Flocks in flight,
Murmurations
Of rippling ribbons
Against rain-full skies
Above the
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Mountain Nose
74-year old grandfather. Served with IVS, Vietnam, 1968-69 in II Corps/III Corps. Police-fire-court reporter for Holyoke (MA) Transcript. Editor for GTE NW "Newsworthy" paper. PA Officer (DAE) for FEMA, Region 10, 15 years. Member Poets West Society. Currently, substitute high school teacher, Everett, WA.
Indiana at 3 a.m.
In the morning night
When streetlight shadows
Scramble rat-ways
Under parked cars
And
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Loudest the Graveyard's Call
Loudest is the graveyard’s call
On afternoons in autumn’s fall
As light between the
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North Carolina Road Trip
They serve
Pit-cooked pork
Says the sign
Beneath the mossy oaks
Of Alligator Swamp,
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While Transporting Motorcycles in Vietnam
I wedge myself between the Hondas,
Giving up my place to him,
Moving slowly and with help.
Pant
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Saigon '68
I have seen you, shell-shocked city,
Shimmer in the parachute flares
The day's dust and exhaust
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