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Recorded Reading (0:57): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m0c4ubwh0hgcag1yno5kz/A-Weeping-Poet.mp3?rlkey=1nay42mc6wn92pau75cupn9kw&dl=0

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A Weeping Poet

I weep, and as I weep, the poems roll
Forth into words upon the pristine page
Coalescing to a collected whole
Which mirrors my reflection as I age

Driven from post to pillar, and from there
Back to the unforgiving post again
Who can say whether ever, anywhere,
Any security of haven I may gain

In face of forces awesome in their might
Clandestine in their darkened energy
My only hope: continue to do right
And trust an angel to look after me

Either successful in her saving grace,
Or otherwise, with tears upon her face

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