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Among stark white houses held by their red tiles down beside a sea of real blue a youth meanders in the sun's eyebeam. From one shady portal something welcomes him into a patio with lemon trees.© Carl Selph, 1999
On Corfu
Loving Eos strips to their rocks the most ancient islands amid their green and purple waters Under the brightening sky her desiccated spouse shudders and yearns Honey drips over the brown crust The smell of dusty thyme Apostle Papageorge guide cable address AMEXCO passes scratching his behind© Carl Selph, 1999
To the Mountain
How, together, flow, cor cordium, pure lava, pure snow?© Carl Selph, 1999
What Am I Doing
in Newfoundland? It is spring; the snow is groin deep. The cleaning woman tells me her five daughters all married American airmen and flew to New York. At the Base Exchange I buy Brown Mule chewing tobacco for her invalid husband. Paris is on this latitude.© Carl Selph, 1993 First published in Mankato Poetry ReviewA Being in a Square
A being in a square inside a rectangle inside a square locked in a grid emitted from two ducts two crystal cubes because all angles not obtuse and not acute are right.© Carl Selph, 1999All text on this page is copyrighted by Carl Selph and appears here by permission. All rights reserved. It may not be archived beyond one personal electronic copy for offline reading; such a copy must include the entire text of the present notice and the author's name. It may not be printed, posted on a web-site, distributed publicly or privately, used or quoted in whole or in part, or published in any manner or form whatsoever without the author's explicit permission. E-mail Wordreign to contact Carl Selph and your request will be promptly forwarded.
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