Haitian Image
The line of girls
sits waiting
Cocoa eyes emitting
a level,
parallel gaze.
Slim arms grasp elegant knees
Each shoulder
aligns with the next
as similarity of face
frames the beauty of difference.
The age of anticipation,
waiting
for something.
Marsha Salerno
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- Stimulation
- Overgrowth
- Barked Shin
- Herald of Summer
- Short Rest
- Lonely Stand of Trees
- Tidal Wave
- Modern Life
- Stillness Interrupted
- Sorrowful
- Mourning Dove
- Child
- An Elegant Terror
- Burrowed—
- The Twilight of My Mind
- Bright Day
- Loss
- Autumn Angst
- The Moon on the Prairie
- Long Life (For My Grandfather)
- Weather for Conversation
- River Bank
- Broken Heart
- Your Words Have Brought Me Peace
- Cottonwood Leaf
- Friend
- Women Work in the Cabbage Field
- Haitian Image
- The Tree in my Window
- Love Poem for Gino
- Father’s Love
- Searching for Contentment
- Is it the Gift?
- Live for Us
- Stalking the Poem
- The Beach Beckons Me
- Save Thyself
- Vision
- Bleak
- A Very Strong Emotion
- Brain Specimen
- Proposal
- Plaza Restaurant
- Opposites
- I Can Not Sleep
- Path Defined
- Time Wears a Disguise
- Duty
- Reassurance
- Puddle Prints
- Plain Black Bird
- Paralyzed
- Miscarriage
- Death in May
- Distorted Vision
- Prairie
- Tragic Flaw
- Secrets
- In the Night
- Adoration
- Drowsy Gift
- Robin in Blue
- Life is Hard.
- Once I Didn't Understand
- Romance
- Cuñado
- Realization
- The Carpet
- Piano Lesson
- Overheard Telephone Conversation
- Lost Opportunity
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