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#1028067 added March 3, 2022 at 3:59pm
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Conundrum
Conundrum

They crouched down in the trench,
heedless of the clinging mud,
aware only of the coruscating light
in the dark night sky above,
like canisters of fire shattered
into the vast and empty void,
a firework celebration
or Great War reenactment?



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 06.16.21
Prompt: Canister and coruscate.

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