Knell

 

We low on daddies hereabouts

The fathers all but gone

Our lack a weight

a shape a drybone lake

By war by

drink by

gun by

drift

The father’s all but gone.

 

 

Atsuro Riley  (USA)

Source: Poetry Magazine (Sept. 2017)

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