Monday, April 16, 2012

Neighbor: Poem

Neighbor

by Armando Ortiz


Mocking birds began their song 

the morning the neighbor died.


It had been a long dry season, 

and so was his death.


Exhausted was his body, 

and brittle like the golden grass.


Drizzle was all there was, 

making the hills green.


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