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Guitar Lesson
My guitar has lost sound
shed like snakeskin
in a desert of neglect.
Wood and strings longing
for touch dry up and
barely whisper their song.
And I beg forgiveness,
shoulder in embrace,
fingertips stroking the pain
into song. Each day,
each hour, each moment
our love revives.
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About the Author: Larry Smith is the editor-publisher of Bottom Dog Press in Ohio, also the author of 6 books of fiction and 8 books of poems, and most recently Mingo Town and Memories: Poems. A retired professor of humanities, he lives and works along the shores of Lake Erie in Huron, Ohio.
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Image Credit: Juan Gris “Still Life with a Guitar” (1913) Public Domain
As It Ought To Be 
Revision: and most recently Mingo Town and Memories: Poems if you can make it, no big deal. Larry Smith, Bottom Dog Press Converging Paths Meditation Center
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