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Lightless
Each year the light is less
We can barely see it now
The faint necklace of
The Milky Way.
The old ones were wrong
You know with their waxed fingers
Pointing up like abandoned adobe.
Yet you know better in your cubical gardens
And half moth-eaten moons
You have arrived in
Handcuffs.
Clinton Van Inman is a high school teacher in Hillsborough County, Fl, and a graduate of San Diego State University.
He was born in England. OTHER PUBLISHED WORKS: BlackCatPoems, Inclement Magazine Summer 2011,
Tower Journal, Spring 2011, Down in Dirt, May-July, Essence Jul 2011, New Writer, The Journal,
Literary Magazine, Hot Air Quarterly, Nibble, Cynic On-Line, Hudson View Poetry, this issue,
Munyori.com, this issue, Vox Poetica, and Cynic Magazine, besides many contributions to the SOP.org.
Email: Clinton Van Inman
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