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Laren McClung: If Love Only Lasts a Year, What Comes

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

of light blessing the house

plants what comes

when a tadpole has taken up

in the mecca of nowhere

another week passes

& I sense a small world

growing inside an unknown about to be

erased can you imagine

the tadpole splashing

before a world unfolds

or falls can you press your body

closer to the sad fish inside

all salt & craving we have

no way to catch now

but there is a whole river of nightfish

ready to be delivered

Filed Under: Contributors 92, Issue 92, Poetry, Poetry 92 Tagged With: Contributors 92, Laren McClung, Poetry, Poetry 92

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