right hand pointing

 

     
  Lynn Strongin

Ordinary Battles / Extraordinary

 

 
Late night above the 49th
parallel O Canada!  North:            usual battles
           extraordinary ones:
too much work   too little  won:
looking at newsreels of Sarajevo, Beslan. . .
a friend’s daughter with metastasized cancer phones:
lungfulls.
The Broken Man coming.

Stars so bright they hurt the eyes:
can you imagine baroque
lace covering night?            Metastasis.

        The extraordinary battle-challenges             & the common one:
        Here comes      Peter Wise      tall as a stalk
        he will balk     the broken man both hands tied behind his back with thin
whipcord               will not talk.

 

 

 

 

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