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Florida, Babylonia

5th Sep 2020

Samuel Strathman


Bottle rockets catapult
off balconies
in the rooks.

Tin villages spilling
from windows, culverted.

Safe landing
like a paperweight
settling beside a letterhead
at the writing table.


Samuel Strathman is a poet, author, educator, and co-editor at Cypress: A Literary Journal.

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