Pirelli's Miracle Elixir*

blond hair
blows in the wind --
she wears a baseball hat
after the chemotherapy,
hopeful

            *song title from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Time to Rebuild

Sinkholes
in rough pavement
after another storm --
the empty bank accounts after
divorce.

After the Cows Come Home

Tall, dark
Stetson-brimmed head --
his laconic answers
frustrating even when taking
him back.

Revision

Scribbles
in old notebooks
fragments of old poems --
she rewrites her life with new pens,
fresh ink.

                                                                                                © Deborah P. Kolodji

Loch Raven Review Winter 2005 — Vol. I, No. 2
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