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"cry fowl" & "prodigal ghosts" by J. R. Wilkerson



cry fowl


yard fowl flee the sight


to cower

lest they perish


from the

hawks in

flight


tumbling

down

as they

cherish




prodigal ghosts


it was in those first warm days and

you never would have known

from this old picture just

how windblown

yet soundlessly the silhouettes

of clouds swiftly passed their

shadows racing over

the short grass

as sunbeams cast and filtered past

barren branch and woodbine

to dance amongst the pale

prodigal ghosts upon

the clothesline




J. R. Wilkerson is a longtime Washington, DC – area resident with roots in the Missouri Ozarks. He has an amazing wife, and two equally amazing kids.


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