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AMAZE
Ann K. Schwader
 
Chaco By Moonlight

Ghost roads
scar this canyon:
ancestral mystery
cut deeper than words through the earth's
mute flesh

vacant
as space between stellar beacons
signal fires kindled for
a pilgrimage
of dust.

Last Crescent

Thoth moon
ibis beak pared
down to a writing reed
dip yourself deep into midnight's
black truth
resurrect every hieroglyph
unspoken beloved
Name of a heart
now lost.

Dusk Wings

Riddle
of the sphinx moth:
how old-fashioned iris
lingers as the signature of
twilight.

Return to the front page of this issue:   Amaze   Vol. 3, No. 1   Spring & Summer 2004
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These poems are Copyright © 2004 by Ann K. Schwader.

 

Amaze: The Cinquain Journal is Copyright © 2002-2008 by Lisa Janice Cohen & Deborah P.Kolodji
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