AMAZE

Nancy Bennett

Old Conversations

      Shards of
      remembrance creep
into conversations,
room thick. Think quick when you play host
      to ghosts.



Chalk Drawings

Outlines,
chalk-marked dead men.
Blood roses wilt, scattered
petal stones as death plays his turn.
Hopscotch.


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