By: Denny E. Marshall

on DNA strands
climbing the spiral ladder
yet so far to go

water from fountain
after brief exploration
parachutes back home

his parents
have some serious burns
mostly college degree

when Edgar Allen
as child playing tag with friends
did they say Poe it

lost dreams and nightmares
upon waking up could see
all still on bookshelf

often wonder why
never thought once of money
in state of dreaming

love, eight-letter word
swimming in a beating heart
have too include true