For Will
(Copyright 2025 by Michael Walker)
I remember when you
Saved
Those baby ducks
The summer
You were a security gaurd.
Their mother
Had marched them all
Over a sewer grating
And there they dropped
Trusting and unknowingly
Down
Down
One by one by one
To the slime below…
You had places to go then
Doors to check
But you stayed
Until the fire...
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Poem For My Sister
Copyright 2025 by Michael Walker
I wish we had a literature
We could share
Some kind of Book
Of
Common
Prayer.
I wish all your memories
Corraborated
Mine
In these
Times
In these
Utterly
Divisive
Times.
You don't answer
My
Voice Mails
My cordial
SOS
We live in the same
Little town
A town
Of
Continental
Drift.
I love you
My...
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On Fire (for Lydia)
Copyright 2025 by Michael Walker
Everything
Is on fire
Everything
Is a trash
Fire
And I see
My guant face
In your
Glazed
Eyes
I see
The fall of Rome
In every
Murder ballad
We sing together
Our bed
On fire
The river
On fire
Everything
On fire
As we
Burn…