Stepping Outside to Smoke
by Ace Boggess



chimes sound like human voices in the dark
hello said in the quiet wind how are you?

the trees show slender wrists
waving like those of students at a rave

I think I’ll skip the party tonight
not too old but sanded down to bone





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