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Susan Delphine Delaney
under the live oak
dappled moonlight
and yesterday's warm air
slipping the ribbon
from your love letters
he cannot see
the light
around my shadow
a gust of wind
reverses the stream's flow
sunset
at the wind turbine
the spiral staircase
awaits the tread
of the windmaster
autumn afternoon
standing beneath
the glowing yellow hickory
my whole body answers
'yes, I like butter!'
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for a long lost love
after forty years
still carrying
the torch
hiking up the mountain
we keep silence
each pretending to pray
until we turn back
and find the breath for talk
tenderly
she wipes the lips
of her birthmother
then feeds her
another spoon of pudding
moaning in the wind
the pine
with four strands
of barbed wire
grown into its heartwood
first kiss
racing towards us
a stripe of sunlight
bearing
a butterfly
face aglow
the old monk
bends
to gather roses
for the virgin's feast
Susan Delphine Delaney, MD, MS, is a psychiatrist living in Plano, Texas. She has a private practice in Plano, where she is assisted by her therapy dog, Laura. Susan also works with homeless mentally ill persons in Dallas two days a week. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications devoted to haiku and tanka, and most recently in the anthology edited by M. Kei, Firepearls: Masterpieces of the Human Heart (2006).
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