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Luke Johnson: Gunshot, Campground

August 14, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

I once listened to the cold mosaic
at St. Paul’s dome while my father
whispered opposite.

He spoke of blood and history.
Folks tend to murmur
the wild and holy places,

to texture the roaring quiet
in which comprehension is secondary
to some sense of sanctity:

this mumbled joy we’ve ground down—
gunshot or whisper overcoming distance,
this hoof-beat and the memory

its sounding: dirt-held and
drumming close, buried pulse,
this wind and the silence as it breaks.

Filed Under: Contributors 93, Issue 93, Poetry, Poetry 93 Tagged With: Contributors 93, Issue 93, Luke Johnson, poerty, Poetry 93

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