Poetry: panning rush

panning rush

a man made of leather
looks back
wonders
then wanders

I swallow a
burning pomegranate
common rocks
sloshing in the silt of my weedy water

please come back

sift away my murk and
unearth my gold

in spring

Amanda Deboer Bartlett

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