Spent
The road
bulges gray, cynical and dusty.
Spent by sugary
cake-eating denizens
spreading the good news.
By archaic beliefs
spinning
pious cloth.
(Remember to wash before wearing.)
By hell-fire fans
down at the local Dollar store
discounting
derelict pennies
who roar once more
over the obsolete
Five and Dime.


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Cornelia DeDona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant, Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters Member-At-Large of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii for thirty-six years. She makes her home in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online and Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In October 2015 her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women’s Vinnie Ream contest was awarded the 3rd place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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Reblogged this on Corney Press and commented:
Rewritten; I think I’m done! LOL!!
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