Pawprints
Dark clouds stain the sky
like bruised blackberries,
summer rains pass through
uplifted oak branches,
rinsing the air before they depart.
A small stream whispers
into the Sangamon River,
the red-eyed sun sparkles along
the wavetops and silty shoreline
like pawprints of fallen stars.
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Frank C. Modica is a retired teacher who taught children with special needs for over 34 years. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Willawaw Review, New Square, Sheila-Na-Gig, and Stone Poetry Quarterly. Frank’s first chapbook, What We Harvest, nominated for an Eric Hoffer book award, was published in the fall of 2021 by Kelsay Books. His second chapbook, Old Friends, was published this past December by Cyberwit Press.
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