{"id":39061,"date":"2017-08-05T21:34:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39061"},"modified":"2017-08-14T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T04:08:08","slug":"black-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/black-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"

We cannot eat this bread.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A shadow reached all the way around<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

the sky <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

as a life tilted away like a <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

country road headed north.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We sometimes forget<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

just how to move air in and out —<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are no easy breaths here.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We search for life, and find<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

loss instead.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We seek reasons, but find<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

no words<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

but “broken,” “mystery,” “gone,” “sorry.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Starved, we long for light, but find<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

the black wings of a darkness too vast<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

to walk through.\u00a0 Meanwhile <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0I will cry, then<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I will bake a new kind of bread to awaken<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

a different kind of morning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>J. Pratt-Walter, (c)\u00a0 8\/2017<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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