Four Poems |
by Charles Vermont |
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from the Cabinet of Dr. Vermont
*** multicolored jumpsuit gold earing beneath her blond locks readying herself for the bone marrow rally actually to recruit a donor raiment raiment for the prayer raiment for God’s generosity raiment for her daughter Presbyterian Nurse never blink in compassion and care, straight hair always at the ready church on Sunday PTA and ballgames during the week an upholder of Christ’s dictum to visit the sick came in one day with an accidental needle stick used needle, owner of said blood unknown she shivered and shuttered herself in fear of HIV but it had been there overnight, reassurance the horror the possibility an unlikely outcome she went back to who she was bravely, knowing the risks Water Intelligence the caribou and wolf speed and agility both were blessed with using the river current to wear out the pursuing wolf the caribou won using water intelligence the wolf seemingly exhausted, and defeated, left, however returned with the pack taking down the caribou whose display on a one on one basis had been impressive The Pristine Far North norwegian cruise delightful sauna a man says I could have had children with blond hair and blue eyes why I ask myself is he telling me this? a confessional to another spartan soul? he had been a communications director for NATO, a PhD in languages his family was in Los Angeles, he was traveling alone something about the pristine of the far North to uncomplicate the biological consequences of the ethnic cauldron of his once idealistic mind |
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