2nd Biannual OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest

[Jeff Aitken]

will it work again?
look at their faces.
I did not sleep
a wink, as usual.

except for a dream:
grandma Shoshanna beckons me
to walk beside her -
narrow Carpathian shtetl path.

begin the circle walk.
slowly speak those words
and beneath them, hers:
I love you - you -

come, have some soup,
tell us your story!
rooms bursting with conversation
time for a nap.


One should always sleep on a poem, say I who did not do so. I will defer to
the judges as to whether a second try will count in the contest! :-) But I
want to send it around anyway. Jeff

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Jeff Aitken
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Inverness CA 94937
415-663-8789
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