Uncommon Refrains
by Gregory W. Randall
Table of Contents
A Sort of Nocturne
The Hospital Stay
Doing the Nightshift
Uncommon Refrains
Unusual Patterns
Collusion
Proserpina
Grace Notes
Girl Reading
Swim Lessons I
Grace Notes
A Study of Plums
Swim Lessons II
Horseplay
Reconsidering Grace
Homecomings
Intermezzo
Re-entry
The Past is Concealed in Doubt
Swimming with Red Dragonflies
Legitimate Desires
It’s true: I wear all my
sunglass clips sepia-toned
so each day’s events play out
as in a flashback. You laugh
but isn’t this legitimate desire
to go back
and reclaim the irretrievable hours
why we linger in the pool
till all the stars arrive,
each flicker of light
burnt some millennium ago
becoming a chance
to relive the past
while gliding on our backs
through an upside-down night?
You think I’m ridiculous,
but aren’t you the one
who even as I speak
collects wisteria seeds flat as coins
out of the frosted grass
to breed for our future
the scent of all our past?
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