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i saw her in the park
by M. E. Barrett

The details in this poem are so intricately painted that I was drawn into their reality, complete with unique and vivid imagery layered with the scents of summer and the sounds of music past.

 
   
i saw her in the park
sunbathing nude
on a fuzzy and tattered wool blanket
she was weaving bare copper wire
through the spaces between her toes
wrapping it around her feet
then lying on her back
she spread her legs apart
and raised them in the air
like twin receptors on
a bunny eared antenna
she said that she was trying to
pick up the distant echo of
old radio stations
the love songs of her youth		 i saw her in the park by M. E. Barrett
 
 

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