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Star-Spangled Salute by George M. Cohan

warm brass breath
rising on summer evening…

A. Violet July 11, 2021 Free Form, Postaday

Sousa’s Gladiator March

trombones
jab orange javelins
into the air…

A. Violet July 10, 2021 Free Form, Postaday

Jaunt Around the Neighborhood

The neighbors
may think
I’m a weirdo,
and maybe I am…

A. Violet April 6, 2021 Free Form, Postaday

Listen to Me

The apocalypse
may be inevitable….

A. Violet January 13, 2021 Haiku, Postaday

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Hold back the tide,
keep voice steady,
but not monotonous,
inflect appropriately…

A. Violet January 11, 2021 Free Form, Postaday

Did You Listen to Jerusalem?

I stopped short and looked at him. “I took a break…

A. Violet November 27, 2020 Dribble, Postaday

Go to Bed

I should go to bed.

My music carves a pocket
in the still, dark
overalls of the house….

A. Violet November 20, 2020 Free Form, Postaday

Distant Lightning

it sprawls across the dark sky
like electricity that forgot
where it was going…

A. Violet July 24, 2020 Free Form, Postaday

The little girl holds the jump rope and looks out over the field

One corn stalk whispers to its neighbor, “Do you ever feel like we’re being watched?”
“Shh,” hisses the neighbor. “I’m listening — if I hear it again, I’ll be able to decide if that was a child’s footsteps or a ghost.”
They incline their ears toward the possible source, but the wind carries in the wrong direction to confirm….

A. Violet June 24, 2020 Postaday, Sudden Fiction

Why we pay them the big bucks

If you listen only
to what I say out loud,
I’m having a different
existential crisis
than the one in my head…

A. Violet June 4, 2020 Free Form, Postaday

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