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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Charles D. Tarlton


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Signs of Life at the Kayak Launch

An orchid and,
where it was white now pale yellow
— in the center.
This other one's just plastic and silk,
though it stands up to roughest use,
its cold untruths in lips and fingers follow
 falsely, hand over hand.
Intangibly, the push of oars against
passing water
rippling out in crescents, amplifies the distance,
as blood and nerves
hold truth in their pulsing, goodness
measured in their pressured pounds