The Crime of Erosion 

by Lisa Marguerite Mora

I sit on the porch

my thumb in a book

looking up

at the white sun.

These days drift by

like the drone

of small pleasure

planes. They barely stir

the sky, mosquito

rippling pond water.

I miss the slow

spoked wheels

of summer

they glide around,

and down, glance off

the sun baked tar. Still

an impression

is made. Breeze grazes 

my cheek.

Mosquito 

draws blood.

I hesitate before

turning the page. 

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"The Crime of Erosion" was originally published in a slightly different form in Peck Rd. Magazine 2004.

Lisa Marguerite Mora has had work published in Rattle, ONTHEBUS, Rebelle Society, The Urban Howl, Cultural Weekly, Public Poetry Series, Literary Mama, and California Quarterly, among many others including a Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Prize and this year tied First Place for Dandelion Press Micro Fiction Contest. Recently she has finished a first novel and is at work on second. Lisa studied with author Carolyn See at UCLA where she received a Bachelors in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis. A story editor and consultant, she also conducts creative writing workshops in the Los Angeles area.