3 Poems by Michael Belongie

1.

As we dread misstep on tight rope,
every moment toeing the wire, forward
within mind and in the moment.

2.
Pin Pricks
Review of Late Migrations
Margaret Renkl
Pin pricks
tingle as
heart of reader
posits avian
posturing.
Love and loss
co-mingle
with grieving.

3.
U
t
Sedimentary Sequel

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Sedi-
ment-
ary
writ,
time-lapsed,
opening
portal with
the present
a
water inundates
d
sculpts
with endless cap-
r
i
ce
ages–old stone.

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tectonics-
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hour glass.

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Michael Belongie, poet of seven chapbooks and whose home is imbedded within a limestone quarry and overlook of Beaver Dam Lake shore. Active in poetry and writing, past president Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, emeritus Poets’ Calendar editor, Pushcart nominee of poet Antler. Poet friend Margaret Noodin opts, “we are all, one by one, cousins."