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Susan Steudel - Red Dice
Cradling fire in cupped hands.
A wet bird. A thimbleful
of water.
Yellow jackets
on stem of fireweed.
A crosshatched tweed dress suit,
silk undergarments.
A dollar at the bottom of a pond.
Drumroll practice. Velvet
ropes on brass posts.
A fire-alarm part. Photographs
left in developing fluid,
overexposed streamside
thistles. Double sixes
at the coin-op
laundry. Billowing cloudscapes.
A slim chance
of rain.