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it is so dark
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Antigonish Review
- Article date:
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January 1, 2008
- Author:
- Prior, Tim
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From home pieces
you go along and the little
house disappears in the side mirrors, a
vibrating image, indistinct; you go
along because hidden in the earth
somewhere, there is a path, and the
path takes you, though it never
reveals itself to you.
John kennedy is dead and
bobbie is dead and martin luther
king is dead because anger that
expresses itself through violent change
is part of the world of men - they look at
you impatiently, and then they turn and
kill one another for good reasons,
apparently;
and they are up there on that moon playing
golf and my new baby lies
on his back in the shade of the crab
apple tree and he makes a noise
that is still attached to my womb; the
bathroom we put ...