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The Warming

       

 

Overcoats hang

in closets like drying pelts

which, indeed, they are,

scarves strewn like otters

on a sunny riverbank.

 

Now water is nowhere

and sun promises no rain

no gray sky variations,

only lightning infusions

into remaining parched earth.

 

We slouch in living rooms

blinds slanted, sunglasses on,

the great out-of-doors just

a picture no longer

tactile, no longer

 

breathable nor real.

Time was nakedness

was for sporting, now survival,

tattoos indicating

“Return to Sender.”

 

 

Ray Greenblatt has most recently been published in Amethyst Review, Eunoia, Loch Raven, Moonstone, North Dakota Quarterly, and Philadelphia Stories. His forthcoming book of poetry is the final volume four of THIRTEENERS.

 

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