strange fire of forgiveness that flares & fights

You should know

that after you ready

      to meet the far,

stony shore, it is not hope

but the strange fire

      of forgiveness

that flares & fights

_____

there—not wanting

      to go, hoping only

you’d said so

long to all you know—

      to the elms

who also know what it means

to be told you’d die

      & survive.

Hereafter, Kevin Young




Access to food is extremely difficult. In Gaza. Please help them, those not ready.

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