The Meadow Annual Literary Arts Journal 2022

20 The Meadow luminous words for years when i asked him why he titled his poems using lines from other poems he looked at me in what i thought would be much more just smiled and said to confuse my lovers he had flip flops on a heather blue t-shirt a small satchel a baseball cap that referred to nothing no luggage smelled of coconut soap and only had one change of clothes i looked at him closely to remember for us all when he asked to stop off at a grocery store he said he really had very little to teach anyone as we walked in a run down thriftway he bought a bag of spicy pork rinds and two twist top bottles of chardonnay and as we were going through check out he held up his three items and whispered to me in words that seem to bookend a mysteriousness lesson number one

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