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LOOK, GRIEF, ALIVE

 

Its rôle, iniquitous in the dark scene’s rear,

cracking the capsule of suggestion there

that the creaking aisles should be drowned in gas;

or paging the boards with messages

in crevice tucked, come across, read,

how one might scuttle pit, parapet,

was good enough career for any grief.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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