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summertime

A Day in Summer

after Rilke

Lord, how we privilege this season
of blushing fruits and yellow dreams

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October 20, 2020October 21, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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Summertime Sadness

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a dreamy inside edge played on to
a tree full of clown-face rosellas Continue reading →

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December 7, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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Sum(mer) sonnet

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If I were to engineer a blind here
obscuring all of this bright summer’s day,
and thru the tiniest chink, like Vermeer
or Newton, a memory-spectrum display. Continue reading →

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September 13, 2017September 18, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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