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  A Playground for the Devil

 Helen Losse
 

 
I saw oxeye daisies on a grassy hill,
where a hound stopped, panting:  hot,

under the sun.  I heard the river hit the
rocks, as mating salmon swam upstream.

I sat on the shore—thinking of nothing.
My idle mind:  A playground for the devil?

I felt the breeze and smelled the
coming rain, bit off a piece of confidence,

shrieked at its pungency like a woman grown
insipid.  Awakening with sleep-encrusted

eyes, I entered into endless struggle—
yearning for any haven or hell, to rest in.



 

 

 

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Helen Losse is a poet and free lance writer with recent poetry publications or acceptances in Facets: A Literary Magazine, Black Bear Review, Rearview Quarterly, Tacenda, TimBookTu, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Blink, Domicile, Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry, The Verb, Cold Glass, The Bohemian Rag, Sacramento Poetry, Art, and Music, Poets Against the War, Voices in Wartime, anthologies in the UK, and a micro-chapbook, Absolution, in the POEMS-FOR-ALL Series from 24th Street Irregular Press. Her chapbook, Gathering the Broken Pieces, is available through FootHills Publishing. She also writes book reviews for the Winston-Salem Journal. This is her second appearance in Right Hand Pointing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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