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                      Flood Plain – A Poetry Reading

                      Published by John Muro at January 16, 2023
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                      • Poetry
                      • Poetry Reading
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                      • cottages
                      • crushed shells
                      • Flood Plain
                      • poetry
                      • Versailles
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                      Flood Plain – a Poetry Reading by John Muro, performed by Sue Cook

                      Coaxed by the garish sheen
                      of Versailles gold that’s coating
                      the near horizon, I take the day’s
                      final hour out walking with no
                      assurance of return. I’m falling
                      east heading towards that healing
                      space where sea and salt marsh
                      marry and a path of crushed shells
                      rises from water to where wind
                      combs the leaves of wind-spun
                      trees with branches entwined,
                      some leaning sideways as if they
                      are preparing to resurrect a moon
                      that remains hidden from view or
                      perhaps they, too, are eager to bury
                      a season’s worth of burdens in a
                      damp coffer of silt, continuing on
                      with this broken life as silently as
                      the channels that run past shuttered
                      cottages leading into reed pools
                      where, weighted with salt, they
                      leisurely spool for a time, like
                      pebble-struck rings, and then
                      feign rest, provoking an uneasy
                      pause where one can still sense
                      the slow leaking of sound and the
                      absence of so much more than light
                      while now-distant tides fall away
                      in a tremulous thinning like a grief
                      that’s been graciously erased only
                      to return with a widening emptiness.


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                      A native of Connecticut, John’s professional career has been dedicated to environmental stewardship and conservation. In the Lilac Hour, his first volume of poems, was published in fall 2020 by Antrim House and is available on Amazon. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous literary journals, including River Heron, Euonia, Sheepshead, Moria, Willawaw, Writers Shed, and The French Literary Review. He is also a two-time nominee for the 2021 Pushcart Prize.

                      John and his wife, Debra, live on the Connecticut shoreline and they enjoy travel, kayaking, and spending time with friends and family. John has a life-long passion for art, music, and all things chocolate.

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