Tableaux

acceptance, community, paradigms, poetry

everyone frozen
into stock roles
butcher baker
teacher preacher
peon and king
our lines
are read
off stage
no need to move
our mouths
the words echo
to an empty hall

(from Sonnet, a renga, 2011-20012)

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I am a poet and a teacher living in central Texas. I attended The University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College's Breadloaf School of English.

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