afteresque by Barton D Smock

Dec 2015

what bone am I, stillness?

what can I tell my son
I carried?

what is it knows me
that isn’t god
by the humans
I am
in my sleep?

infancy, what overtakes
your period
of mourning?

Written by

Barton D Smock 48/M/Columbus, Ohio

(48/M/Columbus, Ohio)

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