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In a Bedroom 12 x 10
by Charlie → (All Poetry by Charlie)
Thursday, September 22, 2016    Rated "G" by the Author.
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He's no longer a little boy.


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In a Bedroom 12 x 10

 

In a bedroom 12 x 10
he crouches on a bed, all undone.

The boy--the room, they lie disheveled.
Feathers crowd at the window seat. 
Trills squeeze through the window
and escape to muffled hedgerows,
now dwindling in time to the beat of
lollipop drums.

An old chest lies opened
Where many a feather’s left unstrummed… 

Whose is this song untethered?
Whose is the beat un-strung? 

Bleary blue-light leaks from the mounds of covers…
He’s querying Siri, who knows.

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "In a Bedroom 12 x 10"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on September 22, 2016
The last line is a kicker! I didn't know they put feathers in pillows anymore.

Ron


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