Tag: war

• The Silver Line

  Follow a ghost and enter into a numbing That robs the red from the brick And the edge from the knife To stand victorious amongst crowds of the phenomenal dead- grieving nothing now but the loss of grief // By the dint of whim, mutant gene or dangerous exposure to certain quantities of gamma radiation…

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  March 18, 2023

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• Margaretha: Eye of the day

  

  Teacher, How quick the winds in Java How blunt the blows And how deep the sea that closed your body round // Burnished in naught but a shield Impervious to so much of their poison. And to fear- in the end // Blow a kiss to the line Double back over legs that brought and…

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  October 20, 2022

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  death, die, dying, free verse, history, lover, memory, mother, movement, myth, philosophy, poem, poet, poetry, sex, silk, spy, travel, war, woman, writing