Battle of Fort Davidson

into
wild blue yonder
soldiers hit by grenades
how can a war ever be called
civil


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Also known as, "The Battle of Pilot Knob." 

Originally published in Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2.

The Shape I'm In

sometimes
  the moon is out
    of touch with the phase I'm
    in--slipping past waxing--into
    waning

What Ponce de Leon Overlooked

hummers
where time can be
clocked flower by flower
they never stay and they never
get old


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Originally published in Amaze Vol. 4, No. 2 

Depression

fall leaves
the loneliness
the thoughts that everything
we felt attached to will somehow
be lost

In the Next Life

I will
be the cedar
that slows the wind along
fences and welcomes back the birds
each spring. 

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I am going to open this blog with a cinquain that won the March 2002 WHC Shortverses Cinquain Contest. The contest theme was "spring." 

Published in Amaze Vol. 1, No. 1 Spring & Summer 2002 

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