Shadows - Four poems

red lanterns

stringing shadows

in the spook house

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end of the trail—

tupelos in shallows

wildflowers in shadows

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the receding wave

seagulls waiting

in their own shadows

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waiting

I walk in ankle-deep leaves

and overturn stumps

   puffy clouds shadow the sun

   and the buzzard rises

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PL---from 28 poems submitted to M. Suddiqui for consideration in his 2013 issue of SEASON'S GREETING LETTERS.

Is my hill haunted?

 

 

 

by Pat Laster 

 

Three more

black cats, the same

size as the two who claim

this hill, showed up for breakfast. I

shoo-ed them,

 

but they

didn't go far,

turned, sat as if to wait

till I left. By then, the breakfast

was gone.

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Nearly

Halloween. My

own free decorations:

on two windowsills, black cats sit

posing.

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nearly Halloween

egg cartons and tissue rolls

parking lot litter

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bright jack o'lantern

guiding goblins' path ... alas 

rainy Halloween

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calico crouching

in the trick-or-treat bag

her shining eyes

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red lanterns

strung along the dark cavern

of the spook house

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c 2012 by Pat Laster dba lovepat press