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Re: "Boarding House" / Will Dockery

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by: W.Dockery - Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:57 UTC

Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>> Boarding House
>>
>> The truth echoes
>> always and forever dead.
>> A brittle glow worm
>> got caught in the snow.
>>
>> Hugo told me
>> tears were going to flow
>> we were watching baseball
>> a sad game.
>>
>> I wish it could ring out
>> like bells
>> but it is silent and still.
>>
>> It was when I was staying
>> at the boarding house
>> across from the park.
>>
>> I hated those bells
>> and I hated that place.
>> At the same time
>> I loved it.
>>
>> Time stood still
>> during those bleak days.
>> There was no island
>> no ocean.
>>
>> There's golden Heaven now
>> streets of gold
>> people embedded in gold.
>>
>> She has passed now
>> she had wandered in sorrow.
>> The constellation Leo
>> domicile of the sun.
>>
>> Hugo got his
>> that's for sure.
>> Now I have to sit
>> and wait for mine.
>> A sad game.
>>
>> She passed into colors
>> it echoed through the world.
>> But nobody heard it
>> always and forever dead.
>>
>> Splashing water
>> and thin tanks
>> in early daylight
>> fading constellations above.
>>
>> Lost stone city
>> with mud streets
>> out in Lee County.
>>
>> She remembered that city
>> that river
>> those friends.
>>
>> Time stood still
>> in my room
>> in that boarding house
>> always and forever dead.
>>
>> -Will Dockery (1993)
>>
>> ----------------------------
>> From the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog:
>>
>> https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2021/10/boarding-house.html

> Quite an excellent poem......!

Thanks again for the nod.

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