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Rita Lange Severino


The Hour

I listen still
    in the pre-dusk
hearing only the specter
    of your presence in the walls

Laughter muted
    by memory,
your footsteps
    silent echoes on the floor

Dinner is ready,
    a banquet of if-onlys

A table for one,
    longing for
    your five o’clock shadow

Wingless

She trudges asphalt of city street,
no wings to ease her weary feet
she travels alone, at soul’s own cost
choking on the night’s exhaust
no angel here to stop her falling;
no memories mute the darkness calling
up she looks with final prayers
heavy in the cloak she wears

McWorld

Walking through the McWorld today
I started to McWonder
How long before the sky is filled
With patented McThunder

Quite soon the McSun will be shining down
On McFields of bland McFlowers
And we’ll all measure McTime
In corporate-approved McHours

The McRocks of McEarth will be uniform chunks
Of carefully portioned McGranite
And we’ll all be blissfully happy
On our tasteless little McPlanet

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Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time –
    or was it yesterday?
We ran with abandon,
tumbling an afterthought
of slow, but never stop.

We skipped on rocky asphalt,
worry renting no space
in our youthful wild hearts

And now we lie still
on a memory foam mattress,
fearful of every step
that comes with
ever after.

Haiku

A single birch leaf
holds the secret of falling
and resting in peace

The Dance

Breaking in through my window
He taps me on the shoulder,
“May I have this dance?”
As he moves across the stage,
I join him
in the hopeful pirouette
which will become
a frenzied rhumba,
tango,
jig,
easing into a gentle waltz
after which he will exit
until morning comes,
and he taps my shoulder again

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