Conjunctions

by Thomas Redoubt

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Art and life passing back and forth

            Like parent and child with a ball at play;

Like mirrors mirroring in each other

            A first glance suspended in endless reflection;

Like bells sympathetically ringing each other

            In stepwise unison;

Like waves at sea running together and apart

            Swelling as they cross;

Like you and I endlessly

            Becoming us and you and I again.

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Thomas Redoubt

Thomas Redoubt is from Freedom, Pennsylvania, a small town on the Ohio River north-west of Pittsburgh and now lives in Allison Park, Pennsylvania. He was trained in science and law spent the first half of his non-literary career as a materials science researcher and the second half as a lawyer and law school adjunct professor. Redoubt has a passion for writing poetry and sees poetry as the epitome of one person to communicate his/her thoughts and feelings to another.