WONDERINGS

by Grant Carrington

Coffee stains on an empty saucer . . .
Cigarette butts on a wooden counter . . .
A russet moon backed by deep azure . . .
Mountains over the Pacific soaring . . .
Snowy clouds to the Puget Sound clinging . . .
Squalling gulls on Long Island quarreling . . .
Tiny hands that are white with cold . . .
A pair of eyes that know my soul . . .
Two lips with a strength of their own . . .
Everything now is a portion of the past . . .
All now has been lost in a timeless dew-mist . . .
And nobody else shall know my sightless trust . . .

Copyright 1960. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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"Wonderings" was first published in Caravan, Vol. 4 No. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1959), edited by Helen Harrington, Lamoni, Iowa.

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