Excerpt from Target Practice at the Beach:
Sometimes there’s no symbol, only comic relief.
Consider how, for a four year old boy,
an abandoned buoy becomes a target
of endless delight.
Poet Alexander Levering Kern reads “Target Practice at the Beach”
September 28, 2015
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