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.