July Challenge - Day 12

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from At the County Museum

And on the board bench where dozens of drivers
jounced year into year, clicking their tongues,

is a black plush cushion that for each, for a time,
helped to soften the nearness of death.

July Challenge - Day 13

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from Walking at Noon Near the Burlington Depot in Lincoln, Nebraska

a little piano recital of chrome
for someone to whom all things
where full of sadness.