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Sentinel Poetry (Online) #44 THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POETRY & GRAPHICS...since 2002 ISSN 1479-425X Editor: Amatoritsero Ede
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Janet Somerville
Blackberry Picking
Weathered plants thirty years old stretch through shallow soil on Canadian Shield
Black lanterns hang suspended from thorny stalks in early August
Fruit the size of thumbnails hides from greedy fingers stained sticky indigo
Ripe berries plink plonk plink the tin bottom
A chalice held again by three-year-old hands
Elegy for Doolin
Bronte mourns throws back her spotted head
curly chocolate ears hanging pink and brown lips pursed
howls her outrage at the moon the sun the stars
the snow beyond the bay window mute witness to her lamentation
she tries another tactic worries away a patch of her paw
until it bleeds the loss of her canine companion
Imprisoned in the Galleria dell’Accademia
under a vaulted glass dome Michelangelo’s David stands his carved veins throb with life
bely bloodless carrara circuitry; marble muscles flex and relax he shifts his heft to his right hip
his slingshot blithely draped over his left shoulder gazing pensively across the Arno
he contemplates the weight of the smooth stone palmed in his heavy right hand
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