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cool silver
Timothy Resau

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Ice

for Elliott Coleman

Ice

ice

ice—

grilled,
chilled & billed.

Ice—

Cool silver
mirrored white—

Ice.

Diamond-light
willed bright—

Ice

ice

ice.

TELL ME

Tell me
tell me
said tell me
me tell
I said
I tell
tell I
said tell
tell
said
I—
Me said
tell said
said I
Only tell me
only me
only I
only tell
only said
only
tell me
tell
me
I
said—

I Say It If You Say It

I say
say I
it say
say it
it I
I it
if it
it if
it you
you it
if you
it you
you it.

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Timothy Resau’s Prose & Poetry have recently appeared in Poetica, Abstract Magazine TV,  Soul-Lit, Lothlorien Poetry, Superpresent, The Poet, The Decadent Review, Green Ink Poetry, Red Wolf Editions, e.ratio, The Sparrow’s Trombone, Better than Starbucks,  Fictional Café, Poetry Quarterly, BlazeVOX, Ephemeral Elegies, The Metaworker, KGB Bar Literary Journal, Origami Poems Project, among others, and is forthcoming in. Front Porch Review, Alternate Route, and Ephemeral Elegies. Find him at www.words-by-tim.com