There is a paleness
accompanies such messages
a considered silence
The silence clouds
possible thought
like the malignancy
that caused it.
A friend will be leaving us
sooner than natural;
the knowledge is malignant:
loneliness is coming,
paler than pale.
About riverwriter
Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else?
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Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.
