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Poem

Laura Kasischke

Ativan

Ativan

Ativan

That dream of a cricket
in the dark of  the night
at the foot
of  the gallows tree.

Virtuous
cricket. Little, hopeful
heart-
shaped face
lit up by the moon.

Little, hopeful, insistent
song
about the future
sung
to a hanged man’s boots.
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Ativan

That dream of a cricket
in the dark of  the night
at the foot
of  the gallows tree.

Virtuous
cricket. Little, hopeful
heart-
shaped face
lit up by the moon.

Little, hopeful, insistent
song
about the future
sung
to a hanged man’s boots.

Ativan

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