Old Enough To Die*
at the edge
of life
in a world that
seethes with life
one old enough
to embrace ongoing
songs of the
blackbird
*a poem found in Barbara Ehrenreich’s NATURAL CAUSES
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Oh, I love this. The title, and its spareness while at the same time being so expansive, which so beautifully echoes the poem’s theme. The line break– putting “the edge” and “ongoing” at the end of lines!
Aren’t we all at the edge of life, all the time.
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