Signs

The complex going up

opposite us prompts a sigh:

We’re losing the sky.

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No Trespassing on

the gates of the condemned jail.

Below that, For Sale.

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This one says it all,

doesn’t it? We buy ephemera.

Quick, where’s the camera?

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Paradise Yard Sale?

Tempting to write just below,

Everything must go.

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Think what we might find,

though, at a Paradise Yard Sale.

The True Cross, the Grail . . .

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For geese in flight, V

is not a sign they can see,

but a way to be.

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We find Paradise

late. There, for a song, we get

an incomplete set

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of chipped china and,

at no additional cost,

a collected Frost.