BEN RASNIC - PAR ROAD

Ben Rasnic's poetry collections include "Artifacts and Legends", "Puppet", "The Eleventh Month--A Retrospective" and "Synchronicity".
Originally from Jonesville, Va., Ben currently takes place in Bowie, MD.

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                                              Par Road
                                                                                         for Joseph & Vicki Rasnic
 
Adjacent the back nine
of Cedar Hills,
a split level scrolls five acres
of rolling green framed
by mosaic mountains
to the north and west, draped
in charcoal silhouettes
& swirling watercolor sunsets.                             
 
Orchestra of crickets
simmers in the whispering
wind, choreographs a shimmer
of fireflies
twinkling in the shadows
of damp thickening air,
receding into a summer soliloquy
of hushed lucidity.