In The Dreaming Place:
The bathers hurry ashore
as the tide rolls in.

Copyright © 2008 by Becky Beard

In The Dreaming Place:
At an Irish jam session
Millar makes his move.

Copyright © 2008 by Becky Beard

In The Dreaming Place:
A Russian woman devours
all my black morels.

Copyright © 2008 by Becky Beard

And then Robert says,
"If I were a carpenter...
would you marry me?"

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this old house again
checking all the doors myself
lazy new landlord

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Skidding in the rain,
a little motorcycle
rear-ends a parked car.

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aimless wandering
along darkened corridors
abandoned convent

Copyright © 2008 by Becky Beard