After the Circus Leaves

A scarecrow jumps down from his pole
to gather, in his clumsy straw-filled sleeves,
the litter—ticket stubs, cigarette butts, sequins,
paper cotton candy cones, flex straws, coins,
ripped mustard packets, and tiny plastic shards—
cleaning his field.
 
A clown’s discarded red ball nose—
his prize find—he puts on his burlap face
and walks with a bit of samba in his step
back to his post, where he gazes skyward
and pretends to juggle
three circling crows.

published in Silver Blade


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rickjstassi's picture
I go to end of the line before space, hit 'delete' until following line comes up tofirst line, then hitting 'return' puts the second line back right. Repeat until all spaces are gone. I think it is from pasting formatted text... next time try pasting plain text. :) I sure this was absolutely clear ;0/

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The HTML editors are difficult to get working as well as a word processor. Especially if you're copying and pasting from a word processor, it often inserts hidden codes. The easiest way is to copy and paste from a plain text editor like Notepad, which doesn't insert any extra codes. If you know some HTML, you can also switch the view and look at how it's coded.

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