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David
He stands like a king
where the beach blanket
family opens beer cans.
He is the bear who absorbs
everything in the stasis
of lust, his wife. Bernadette is the blond
woman of his unstructured
care--the small rocketing
clear confusion--the child
of his big hot resplendency.
Ed is the brown hardware store
kind of friend who can wink with
no eyes and speaks
with the kingdom.
He turns leaning around his stomach.
The very strange young sister inside
his soul rolls
at the overlapping edges
of his mindful beach blanket realm.
-- published in Phoebe, The George Mason University Review (Volume 20, Numbers 1 & 2, Fall/Winter 1990)
Copyright Louise Robertson
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