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August 29, 2023
By erinhart SILVER, Metuchen, New Jersey
erinhart SILVER, Metuchen, New Jersey
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Favorite Quote:
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” - William Wordsworth


Wakened from the gutter 

vagrant of

these sordid lots;

A sparrow betwixt two knuckles 

flung from the passenger side.

 

In their blood

breathes the anthem of silence,

of forest fires 

and leaden bone; 

a pair of newly sodden shoes.

 

And through splinters 

of an attic window 

float nameless utterances; 

yours, beyond the shadowed ceiling 

of unbroken slumber.



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