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Poetry
Roxie Powell



Mountains



There is something of the bitter
          rebuke present as one views the
          great mountain ranges of Colorado
          for they are what we can never be

pristine and complete
always at the perfect aesthetic
distance
while we are the small rodents
which seek about the floor
for crumbs or perhaps
a flake of cheese
or schist.




MID-DRIFT

I'm collapsable
A fold-away man
built from old Ex-Lax wrappers.

While you look
with exquisite disdain
through my invisibility
I extract the smell
the sensual mid-drift
of your passing
And you pass
without ever quite
leaving me.



© Roxie Powell 2000



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