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"That sorrow ended. So might this."

"a world of dew
the melting snowman
teeth and bones"

--@poemexe.com

Tanka.

"Goldberg afternoon"

card there's cash on · bright morning
pants in my size · sold at the thrift
a walk wending · up from the haircut
months overdue · bypass the books
this redbrick · relict district
oddly apt · away fom outrage-
blazing news · none of us wanted
the belly battered · abaft splinters
of a frail future · we ferried long
did not foresee · savage downfalls
citizens shanghaied · off shivering streets
& one wearies · of wanting otherwise
of plenty planning · riven to splinters
can't process plight · unless dark lager'd
hours only · & dollars lost
a walk in sunlight · safe wand'ring
thrift & no threat · though black threnody
tells me toom · of the far boil
& stupor saves · not one wanderer

"We chatted in earnest about the unwritable book and the literary urge to fuck around and find out being no less urgent as the world burns."