Definitions

Braggadoccio
Cardboard in its own juices.

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Trailsides
There are many such to sleep through.

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The Pollen Count
Another numbered breeze.

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A Secret Referent
Have a good one.

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Fine Garden
North of the sheds.

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Refrain
“I’m not asleep.”

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Tupperware
Bedrock.

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Sincerely
Yours sincerely.

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The 19th Century
Mainly yours.

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Refrain (2)
“I’m not making this up.”

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On a Little Street in Singapore
We’d meet beside a lotus-covered door.


Michael Leddy
September 1995

[Elaine found this sequence of tiny poems in a folder full of cards. I made a single copy, for her, side-stapled, one poem to a page, under the imaginary imprint of One One Books. I just figured out the “One One”: we were celebrating our eleventh anniversary. I’m sharing the poems here with her permission. The nineteenth century is still mainly hers.]