Exposure
Roger Camp
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Morning
birds slice
the rain-splashed
wings
a window opens
on my bed
my hand slides
over the slick
sill dripping sheet
selecting a pane
stripped of its dust
I witness an execution
the trees undressed
raked with hail
the walls
leaf splattered
the room darkens
I can not read
my watch ticks
no comfort in its sound
the storm
silences the street
unmans the landscape
alone with myself
afraid.
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Roger Camp muses over his orchids, daily walks the Seal Beach pier and reads under an Angel’s Trumpet surrounded by a charm of hummingbirds. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals including the North American Review, Southern Poetry Review, Nimrod and is forthcoming in Scientific American and Grey’s Sporting Journal.
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