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Poetics Presents

Gwen Austin

Gwen Austin, retired therapeutic recreation specialist, lives and writes in Washington state in a woodsy spot near Mt. Rainier. Her first book of poetry, Through a Dusty Lens, is about a year in Vietnam. Gwen is also the author of two novels Twilight Manor and Fateful Days. Currently, Gwen is co-facilitator for the Senior Poets Workshop at the on-line Writers' University Village.

WAITING

Comfortable
complaisant
yet niggled
by nebulous nothing
—something

Morning mist
hints—
something
nothing

Blackberries droop
on prickled vines
ooze red
something

Mt. Rainier ghosts
in rain's nursery
nothing—
yet

One russet fern frond
trembles—
something
nothing

Chickadees scour
tree-tips for tidbits—
something

Slugs glisten
night trails—
now nothing

Crisp breeze
ruffles and flourishes

summer's wan song

Copyright © 2004 Gwen Austin



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