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Glen R. Frantz
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Tenuous Miniatures
 

That could which is,
was and the careless so rippling,
was the and sweet so between,
hollow in sleep as apple-tree,
has and plowed lowest.
 
       Has and crowded deep,
       are bloom of as looped its,
       meek were if bared on with seeming flame did,
       are doubted of as seen uncounted.
 
Machines that the chimney in,
sloping were if barn with on slower did lawn,
into flowered forward is this,
halted the that fieldstone in,
the all to wondered under wing,
are finches of as chaffing our.
 
       Silently tower then glass would,
       was and the straight so tightly,
       though are was soundless they,
       dream of being often.
       Creation of being almost.
       One his thoughts of,
       fancied in vacancies as telephone.
 
His forethought though trains contradict,
their theories even purposes suppose.
Shown coins since coincidence would,
hand of ladled full.
If was are satisfied carrots.
 
       Into spreading stream is this,
       which that could is,
       learned into wide is this,
       gilded were if weak with on close did pines,
       was the and cold so curtain,
       has and look ashore.
 
All to fair the even fall,
all to met the snowing swings,
the all to grayness leaking evening.
 
 
 
Scenic Calendar
 

No one would die if surrounded by water, he claimed, as if one naturally associates great plenty with ice-and-snow-laden mountains on calm dark nights when all were dear to the forests around the furrows of which he guided us.  Around the wrong way is money, around the right way is time, hanging thickly on foot from which could thus be reincarnated in less than a year.  But no landing-place there -- and you'd pocket the year.
 
One feels as if at sea; the rain blowing and pouring above the story of the mountain mansion, it must be quite large and not slow to study the mountain in time to time sunbeams poured through narrow openings and fringes in silver yellow rest.  It was as much as when she remembered the winter that would give satisfaction.  But reversing the sun rose mist, the sunshine too was lost in endless position.
 
Close at hand when I came to goat country were the eyes of these mountain waves from the shore, a low, smiled spirit.  I've got the scenery up, in most places just where I went back to her room, as swiftly as a background of an inspiring vista.  No, seriously, she was with a background of earth and less, entirely new to me as they let you know.  But you should see how many other experienced landscapes, now, and there, assisted by his necessity he was coming to unspoiled.  You'll find the place.  His was a silence that was far from all other happiness.
 
That's more than once over, but I could have given the mountain again and back a little.  The harsh dashing and troubles were marched back the meaning of a postcard village, my pockets when I was a city.  I'd like the memory of us in yards; the city, humbly.  How nice it seemed like a smile.  Smiling face of the fire melts warmer and, smiling, where she sat writing, you can help me; dwelling mostly on the shining water around the fire as it breaks off to try to hold on.
 

Copyright © Glen R. Frantz, 2008

 

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