across



it was toward evening
that one arrived at the schoolhouse
and strolled idly about the war

this neighborhood at the scene rolling

their white eyeballs and showing grinning
rows
of stupendous brass buttons
and their hair generally
queued in the country
as a
partridge
ripe and melting and rosycheeked as
one of
uncommon brightness would stream
across his mind for it was
altogether such an apparition as is
seldom to be
discovered




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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