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Richard E. Brenneman, a native of rural Missouri, has returned to writing poetry after retirement from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has been published in The Rimrock Poets Magazine, and The Denver Post Magazine in Colorado, in San Jose, California and also in England. He has lived in Boston for the past three decades.

Richard E. Brenneman

RUSTLING

Shadows of images come to mind
of which the scenes are lost,
projected on an inward screen
to haunt me, and then drift on
down the passages of time.
Fragments of images come and go,
and moods and metaphors
rustle through the mind
like pages quickly turned.
The heart feels once again
memories of love, desolation, hate
like the dry crunching leaves
from a forgotten fall
blowing across the deserted paths
that have been left behind.

— Richard E. Brenneman

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