Candles

I’ve taken to lighting candles
I set them on top of my television set
They smell like pumpkin pie spices
Bayberry
Balinese orchid
And vanilla beans

I turn them on with long matches
I watch them
While the world burns below them
Flickering on the TV screen

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Copyright 2006 E. Bond Francisco

View

four walls
white
bare of hangings

window
single pane
leaded glass distorts
the line of distant trees
twists the hills in odd ways

one bed
a chair
a book
a lamp

sleep without dreams

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Copyright 2006 E. Bond Francisco