Uncommon Refrains

by Gregory W. Randall

Table of Contents


A Sort of Nocturne


The Hospital Stay


Doing the Nightshift

Uncommon Refrains

Unusual Patterns

Natural Defenses

Collusion

Proserpina



Grace Notes


Girl Reading

Swim Lessons I

Grace Notes

A Study of Plums

Swim Lessons II

Horseplay

Berceuse

Reconsidering Grace



Homecomings


Intermezzo

Re-entry

The Past is Concealed in Doubt

Legitimate Desires

Swimming with Red Dragonflies


Berceuse


Tell you a story? 

I might tell you

that if you folded

this white sheet

of paper in half,

and folded it again,

and could keep folding

it over on itself

so many times,

you could make a path

from your bedroom

to the moon. Only

I’ll skip this story

for tonight because

in the morning

coming into

your room

I might find

either heaps

of paper scrap

or a thin trail

leading out

the window

and your absence.

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