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Charles Plymell

Look Around You

Charles Plymell
Who starred in the movie, “Death”? And played the chronic blues when untethered leaves began to flirt and fall in wayward carpets. In the full moon snail paths veer to the west. A cameo of tree roots grown around a stone helpless in secret form of unyielding might. Creation lets us duplicate ourselves through the eons of blood and science synchronized neon and dashboard lights in pirouettes of electric life. There’s no way out of the brain it’s an Esher walnut. Some blow it out others take up religions, drugs, the arts, and Zen.
From the pages of Chiron Review. © Charles Plymell; reproduced with permission. · All poems · Poetry page

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