Poetic Madness
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Smoke
Signals and Smiles
by Antoinette Swanson
Smoke rises
In a straight stream
From her lipstick
Stained cigarette
Smoke signals dance
The night
A humid canopy
Lingers around her
Nocturnal creatures
Chatter and whisper
As she sits
On the gravel
And inhales deeply
With content
Angels watch
With cold cement smiles
Perched atop houses
Of ancestral dwellings
Dawn arrives
Eager to make
Cinders of us all


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