"On the Terrace" - Landis Everson

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The lonely breakfast table starts the day,

an adjustment is made to understand

why the other chair is empty. The morning

beautiful and still to be, should woo me. Yet

the appetite is not shared, lost somewhere in memory.


How lucky the horizon is blue and needs

no handwriting on its emptiness. I am

written on thoroughly, a lost novel

found again. I remember the predictable plot too late,

realize the silly, sad urgency of moss.

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