(for Sylvain)
Dreading winter, he said
“soon there will be white
stuff on the ground.”
I thought of a bad joke
powdered sugar streets
heroin nights, but didn’t.
Perhaps he meant our white
hair on the barber’s floor
before it is swept away.
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DAN WILCOX is the host of the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany, N.Y. and is a member of the poetry performance group "3 Guys from Albany”. His book of poems “Gloucester Notes” is available from FootHills Publishing. He is an active member of Veterans For Peace.
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