Sunday, October 4, 2020

bookmark: shelf life





 bookmark: shelf life


who knew even the least

of these would be, in the humidor

of the poetry

of Seamus Heaney, his piece


about the haw

lantern and the one wandering

diogenes wanting, of wont

one honest or just (held up


to the light from 

the dark) woman or man

in the carapace of its own

singular vault. 


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