Encore

     For Christine Sharpe

Wait some more.
They play "Freebird" at the end
and that is when I will put my arms
around your belly, pray
for an extended version
so I can memorize your sweater,
feel it a decade later when I toss
the ticket stub into the trash.

Formerly a radio disc jockey in upstate NY, Scott received a PhD in English from the Center for Writers in Hattiesburg, MS, in 2010. Currently, he is living and teaching in South Florida.

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