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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Mark A Fisher

Photo by Charles Ardinger

closed encounter


the door is shut up tight

and the windows are dark

there’s nothing waiting

just another casualty

of the invisible hand

foggily groping down

boarded up streets

of second hand stores

and small town churches

still clinging to a dying

clientele entombed

by traditions and fear

leaving bricks and mortar

crumbled into weedy lots

haunted by mere shadows

of ghosts filling all these

empty streets


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