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Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶4h ago

Kranner’s Fountain

Neo-Gothic spire,
reactionary rider —
folly remembers

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Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶1d ago

ii.

Beneath the streets, beer halls of brick:
they parley, preen, dress to the nines;
a verbal joust — no lance, pinpricks
to test if other’s heart may rhyme.

Outside, atop the old oak trees
where pairs of birds nest for many years,
a speckled egg tips, falls, and flees
to land in grass, still whole, still here.

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Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶1d ago

Ovum
A #poetry thread

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In streets of Prague, the shadows bend,
while flocks of tourists take weary flight —
the sun floats low, soft clouds’ glow ends:
it's time to nest and toast the night

in restaurants and dim nightclubs,
a furtive glance and sensual sighs
speak courtship: spoken friction rubs —
new lovers’ truths in small white lies.

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Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶2d ago

Steel clouds

Urban mall ceiling,
bare metal panel patterns —
wrinkles in the sky

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Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶3d ago

No. 12 (Which)

Two doors side by side,
one dark wood, one bright bare stone —
he turns the third knob

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Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶4d ago

ii.

I start to feel it lift from stone,
tall ship that waits for winds to rise,
its galleries a foredeck borne
by time that folds into the skies.

As I stand there, not half awake,
the ocean-sky’s waves crash, divine —
and on the crest of clouds they take
this ghostly ship and make it mine.

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Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶4d ago

Belvedere
A #poetry thread

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Beneath dark clouds of gathering dreams,
the coppered palace roof aglow;
its arches catch the whispered streams
of tales that only sailors know.

The belvedere peeks through the green,
stone vessel held in sylvan sway:
its quiet presence moored beneath
the restless clouds that rule the day.

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Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶5d ago

iii.

There in the dark of the tunnel’s pathway,
I take my photograph from the drying line
and airbrush in a vast hub to say
that no matter the pic, my fate is mine.

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Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶5d ago

ii.

As the red tram screeches through the gloom,
its blue-white lights pushing back the black,
the image develops in my mind’s darkroom,
in brain chemicals held fast. The track

holds it there and I climb aboard.
No passengers here. It’s not a memory
that I'd choose to keep. It drives me toward
its last stop. Though it moves, it’s not free.

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Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶5d ago

Tunnel vision
A #poetry thread

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In a subway station in Prague, I spend
split seconds of vision behind my eyes —
a picture I snap with my mind’s lens
of a lifetrain: one track, with no reprise.

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