light exits our body
a small quake of flickering wind
everything we knew becomes false
we are not shrouded in blessings
nor are we beckoned
we pass through a blue wall in the sky
pain always gathers towards the end
our bodies look back to where we’ve been
where we are headed
threshing out our pain
we lose so much
it hardly seems to matter
Martin Willitts Jr has 24 chapbooks including the winner of the Turtle Island Quarterly Editor’s Choice Award, “The Wire Fence Holding Back the World” (Flowstone Press, 2017), plus 16 full-length collections including forthcoming books “Harvest Time” (Deerbrook Press) and the Blue Light Award winner “The Temporary World”. He is an editor for Comstock Review.
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