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    Lester Smith works days as a writer & technologist for Sebranek Inc., an educational publisher in Wisconsin. In his spare time, he designs games, writes poetry & fiction, codes Web stuff, publishes other writers via Popcorn Press, & dreams of being the first Android Poet Laureate of Mars.

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    Elsewhere

    By Lester | June 3, 2009

    There was an age in which this brown field,
    the brown, veiny trees beyond,
    the wind above like unbreaking surf,

    could lure my feet
    across the spongy soil
    its brittle, weedy carpet,

    into the stippled shadows
    where the fellowship of empty branches
    could brim me over
    with shimmering melancholy.

    However,
    I am expected elsewhere,

    and so a paler shade of feeling
    must sustain.
     
     
    —Lester Smith
     
     
    (Originally appeared in Woud You Dance?)

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    1. My Week of Tweets « LesterSmith.com Says:
      June 5th, 2009 at 11:08 pm

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