poem

North Shore Vesper

Cameron Brooks
Saturday, July 1st 2023
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I’ll meet you at the bottom of the lake.
We’ll watch our friends and enemies ripple
the effervescent sky—then perforate

the firmament like wished-upon nickels
flicked into a fountain and flashing while
they fall. All skipping stones will fall: triples

and fours and fives gathered to the fertile
garden of rock at the base of the lake,
a congregation waiting for the sky

to part, to feel the sunshine on their face,
to feel the sun shine on their craggy face.

Poems
Saturday, July 1st 2023

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