Summary disarms
the merchant reminiscence
preceding kinship.
Guile’s charging lunges
inflame foresight transmitted
with market humor.
Dissolved endeavors,
corroding thus resurgence,
tremble and embark.
Chapters in reproach
discolor the enclosure
as mastery steams.
Born in Michigan, Richard A. Cross moved in his preteens to Tennessee, where he continues to live now. Cross earned a B.S. in political science from Middle Tennessee State University. He has had two of his poetic works published to date. End of biographical statement