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Summer 2002
 
 

The Kiss

You’ve gone off to work

but your blotted lips

O up at me

 

from the wastebasket

where I’ve just tossed

a Kleenex of my own,

 

neither brightly marked

nor spread

with such syllabic fun,

 

mine balled up, a purge

of consonants

beside your lovely vowel.

 

Roger Pfingston

 

     
  Roger Pfingston is a retired teacher of English and photography. He has new work coming out in the Louisville Review, Southern Indiana Review, Poetry Midwest, Red River Review, Hummingbird, and Pudding House Magazine. A chapbook, Singing to the Garden, will be published next year by Parallel Press at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  
 

 
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