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Gathering

by Alan Harris
A hush around the dying
lacks nothing for no words--

     forgiveness by default,
     love river-big,
     faltering philosophies,
     robbed expectations.

The air inside the air
seems ready to receive.





From the book Flies on the Ceiling (1999)

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