Friday, January 23, 2015

After Reading a Review of “The Sacrifice” by Joyce Carol Oates

Out here in the undiscovered dark,
I hear the voice of a phantom.
(Or is it the voice of a lost relative
calling out from the other side
of an invisible hill?)

Across town, cameras flash
as a minister holds a press conference
in the vestibule of a church.
He drinks from the poisoned water of his own ego.
His finger points away from himself.

More children are dying every day.
Bombs continue to fall
while the world sleeps.
No one controls this cloud we ride on.
No one knows how to get off.








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