Jill Allyn Rosser Biography

One can't help admiring
their rickety grace

and old-world feathers
like seasoned boardwalk planks.
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To say screw them, to be screw-them
bent on one thing all but lost,
one music or mystery,
beyond all the necessary
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How do you explain why elephants
appear to move their unwieldy hulks
with greater dignity than most humans do
in their finest moments,
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They come down to us
rounding the corners of centuries
at an innocent jog, shedding letters
and most of the grand old meanings
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When the fog slunk in with that salivary,
close, coyote panting, its hue a very
huelessness, like breath huffed on a glass,
like the void stretched and still stretching past
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