my other (purrs) answer was reported so I am coming and answering again with all due respect
It does not take much to become the top in a section, I have that honor in YAP Canada. I have no real background in Poetry I cannot recite or name the great poets, I simply exist, write and read and...
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when I last looked
you were just a wee lad
but I turned around twice
and you were gone
grown out of all
that I had given
tossed to the side
I felt your eyes, the last time
we spent
that day... me packing up
you with your camera
were you filming me
to remember?
or were you looking for...
flutter moths
and bitter flys
defy the web that hangs
between my window
framed in sunlight, and
undressed limbs
with tiny buds
busting forth as
if tomorrow was not soon
enough for them
...
and I alone
beneath this moon
cocoon not quite
caught tight and held
by weblike tendrils
sticky...