Monday, May 10, 2021

grinnell street key west

a few years before now


is the shortcut toward
harpoon harry's
eventually you need to step
out of the darkness
the exposed tree roots
a hundred years growing
through hurricanes and floods
leafy overhangs
crowd your sweaty palms
opening hands in a black sky
to the cemetery
like iron gates and headstones
locked above ground
for the poets
and mandolins

--- e b bortz 

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