Specks & Strakes
Roberto Suarez Torres 1983 (New York)
Each tongue a daze,
The knot of chaps tied unswerving.
Cold, as pane racing…
Yet balk at a Liberator.
Attached paper, staples
and letters enclosed in dust,
Each ebb lust,
cherry maples
found in a yielded rush,
eating out of an incinerator.
All pacing
specks & strakes graze,
a fable
Like pulp, by the mush of a maze.
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Submitted by robertrad2021 on March 28, 2021
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 318 |
| Words | 66 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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