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Midnight Cafe

Greg Lanier 1962 (Atlanta, GA)

In the silence of my dreaming
   visions clouding -
      bells a ringing
Sipping nectar from the altar
   William Carlos
      Uncle Walter
Robert Frost directs the traffic
   Wallace Stevens?
      chiropractic
Emily’s riding in her carriage
   secret passions -
      never marriage
As the evening hour approaches
   bells transcend
      to dulcimers
Then the comfort of the Blues
   in the strains
      of Langston Hughes
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Submitted by GregLanier on May 10, 2021

Modified on March 28, 2023

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Scheme AAABCBDEDFEFGHCIJI
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 413
Words 60
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
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