{"id":1216,"date":"2008-04-11T19:17:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T19:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2008-04-11T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T19:17:53","slug":"dates-fossils-by-frank-praeger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/dates-fossils-by-frank-praeger\/","title":{"rendered":"Dates & Fossils by Frank Praeger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of Dates and Fossils, Dinners and Meadows <\/span>
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Avuncular guards at every door, <\/span>
long-winded speeches highlighting <\/span>
large-breasted, small-waisted heroines –  <\/span>
paper cutouts <\/span>
for each occasion. <\/span>
Bouncers exit from a nearby bar. <\/span>
Patrons gambol on a trampoline. <\/span>
Friends that never come round anymore. <\/span>
Long walks, long monologues, <\/span>
adjudicating the very old, <\/span>
dates on tombstones, <\/span>
fossils at the beach. <\/span>
Streets winding towards nowhere, <\/span>
cursive markings on a curb. <\/span>
A cape draped over a nobody's shoulder, <\/span>
bright colored bunting on a bannister. <\/span>
Testimonial dinner <\/span>
for having lived so well, <\/span>
a tentative distaste,  <\/span>
                        a far off stare. <\/span>
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Untrammeled high-mountain meadows edged with need. <\/span>
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Unzipped fly, dirty fingernails ill met. <\/span>
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Jackal,  <\/span>
            lion,  <\/span>
                       hyena   <\/span>
                                     comport themselves  <\/span>
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in dreamy, after-the-fact grasses,  <\/span>
                                       in residual nightmares. <\/p>\n

\u2022 Frank Praeger lives in Houghton, MI
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