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Always

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Bart Windrum in Uncategorized - 1 Comment

As I work on the materials for the interactive segment of future Windrum’s Dying Terms Matrix presentations, a poem emerged reflecting the many ways we now have to die:

Always

A petal falls, always,
and all ways:

A whisper; tangle;
sacrament; enmeshment;
float; dangle;
threadbare; indefinite;
a dalliance;
gentle into a good night;
after discarding tooth and nail;
or even make to die a fail.

We lengthen life and then assess
a lengthened death as natural;
what price our inestimable
brilliance?
Polymorphic species,
single petal—
always.

Always ©2012 Bart Windrum

all ways, always, die
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One comment on “Always”

  1. Robin Karr says:
    November 21, 2012 at 10:30 am

    Love this Bart!

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