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    A Hotel in Florida

    In the stunned heat of
    a day in July
    A woman is leaning from
    the fifth-floor window
    vodka at elbow
    she watches the evening
    rob the yellow from this day

    she checked in 2 days ago
    her breathing has changed
    from panicky
    to shallow, to normal

    across the highway a heron
    standing on one leg
    is lost in thought
    letting the world go by
    as it must

    she carries the vodka to bed
    lifts the glass and drinks
    listening to the electric buzz of insects
    tires humming over concrete
    planes moving through time zones

    it is the time to kill time
    lying back on the bed
    she lights one up

    the stillness of a hotel painting
    looks placidly her way
    sensing the evening shadows
    lengthening across the room.
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    One of your very best Tony. Evocative and well imagined.

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