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The following two poems, “The Collection” and “Contemplation”
are from the chapbook Moon Flowers on the Fence by Judith Bader
Jones.
The Collection
On sleepless nights as swallows circle barns
and oval raindrops rattle tin roofs, I enumerate
old lovers — men I hoped would love more than the turn
of my youthful curves, men who sleep now in beds
far from alfalfa, levee roads and the girl who rode a horse
until she tamed the fury in his step, pulled the reins back
with enough strength to stop him when she wanted to get off
and walk away from power unbridled in lust.
Contemplation
I sit on the patio
balance thoughts
on the moment.
Life bears down,
counts out my days,
but I will come again,
like a gardenia’s scent,
travel in the air
or blossom —
on the fence
a moon flower —
one light in the night.
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