Friday, October 6, 2017

A LAS T


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A Las t

Alas, grieving sorrow,
Tribulating
Don’t ask from where—
Shenandoah; Shiloh...Meadows
Down to Sheol

Welted eyes again, shadowed tears,
Wind-cuffed faces with ‘full’d’ lashings
Dusted wind
Of more less and less,

Wiping away
With wept wetness
In a downward swirling wet sweep,

Faces lost, lastless,

The torn night sky, starless in
A multiple series of weeping losses,

Stark--
Abyss’d fall of all welling reveries
Wailing
In this wreck--aging.

How long, how many tomorrow’s tomorrow

This a las—ting loss lostness?

Selah


--Daniel Wilcox
First pub. In The New Verse News
in different form

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