so much depends

upon

 

you sprawled

across

 

a red wheel

barrow

 

your manicpan

icked hair

 

glazed with rain

water

 

the sound of you

clucking

 

beside the white

chickens

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Esther Greenleaf Murer, a relic of the 20th Century, lives in Philadelphia.  She has been featured poet in The Centrifugal Eye and KIN. She has published one collection, Unglobed Fruit.  Links to some of her poems published in online zines may be found her blog at http://esthergreenleafmurer.blogspot.com/, which she may update someday.