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upstairs,
the hemlock
of heavy steps
pauses with
a pinch of passion,
rose words,
cactus response
breaking
litters the floor
like triangles
colliding,
and then,
silence
as night tempts
tragedy into
exhaustion
with the promise
of morning,
and nothing else
Dr. Singer is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Connecticut, and past president of the Connecticut Shoreline Poetry Chapter, in association with the Connecticut Poetry Society. He has had over 1,250 poems published on the internet, magazines and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee.