The Fountain Cracked, Its Basin Filled
The fountain stands in the lot
Its basin filled with dead leaves
And ash-gray moths
Floating in the filmed water.
I saw a bird perch there
On the cracked rim.
It twisted its head one way
And then another
As if searching for something
I could not see.
It searched the lot,
An old garden, unkept and overgrown
With dandelions and ragtails.
(Wild strawberries still grow there.)
Then the jay flew into a patch
Of green and brown.
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Submitted by ajmiz827 on November 03, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 426 |
Words | 84 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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