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Ars Poetica by Michael Brockley

 

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Ars Poetica

The heron hides its sleek shadow within the river’s shadow. The grandfather tells his grandchildren to let the river find them. The current hurries over the falls. Swamp sunflowers blossom on the far bank. The poet once wrote about the last burst of sunlight along the river. In the evening, raccoons visit their infinite industry along these banks. Their agile hands washing a late August pear. Or dexterously cleaning the river’s harvest. “Half again,” the father advised the apprentice poet. And half again once more.


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Michael Brockley


Michael Brockley is a retired school psychologist who lives in Muncie, Indiana. His prose poems have appeared in The Prose PoemDoublespeak Magand Keeping the Flame Alive. In addition, Brockley's prose poems are forthcoming in Bay to Ocean JournalUnlikely Stories Mark VI, and Stormwash: Environmental Poems, Volume II.


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