Kyle Hamp - ! Moons drift on the Mississippi...

There's touch to water of dark mouths:
The lips of dashing Deer.
Tucked in safe is all the South,
But out I am: no fear.

Ripples dance, collecting-
Everything that they can stash,
But no rasping from the River-
Coughing up their little trash.

Moons drift on the Mississippi.
Fire-flies take flight.
Beauty bathes in cotton fields
For She is brave tonight.

Kyle Hamp

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