Susan Sonde: Romeo to his Juliet (Corrected version)

As nothing shutters a bad like a good,

I’ll come to you, fish in water, 

dime with a hole drilled through the middle.

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Let’s span a time with each other. 

The mutual will give us pleasure. 

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The days are ruddy in the sun 

and in the rabbit warren 

a situation is brewing.

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Be diligent in your happenings 

at the windows among the flies.

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Stick to the industry of resolve, 

they are looking for recalcitrants 

like you.

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Don’t spend flagrantly if you don’t 

want a gone. Have wine with your 

plenty.  I’ll come to you.

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The dogwood is already underway

and the lilac we know isflagrant.

I’ll come to you like a car in mud. 

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Lately, I’ve been sufficient and found

the missing dictionary dog-eared 

among your gloves and gray 

hat, feathered band.

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Take the bread if you want discourse 

with the pigeons. 

Nothing fits the box you gave me. 

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I am quite a palindrome in your 

hands. Still, I’ll come to you, 

when the mirrors retain my image. 

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I am capable in my letters as there’s 

no one but you. You have earned 

in the school of anxiety,  my approbation. 

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I drive nails into the ground on 

your behalf,  lest you  betray me.

Let’s not head back to dissension

it gives us no purchase. 

I want the early of you

not how you’ve digressed.

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Ours was to be an easy—

not atonal. 

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Abundant melon; exquisite wave—.

O’ flight of bird, I am chronic for you,

a sponsor of your munificent, and

I’ll come to you.

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Note: A truncated version of this poem was sent out earlier. We apologize to the author. — MS

Copyright 2019 Susan Sonde.