I
fifteen thousand six hundred and six
we believed in everything
we had nothing else to do
but to while away this vocation
of being alive,
though not much of that,
only the height of a window
to a room mostly below ground
only the duration of snow, as,
through the night’s dropleted air,
the flakes ricocheted, warming
with each collision, the ground
collecting only what substance
could outlast the undertaking;
we believed, as such, in the ability
of the forthcoming to arrive,
typically, even, on schedule
typically, even, proving itself
worth the despair of hoping for it—
how imprisoned we are in their ghosts
twenty-thousand and thirty-two
The Republic of Home is available from The Blasted Tree Store
Featured by The Blasted Tree: August 6, 2022
Leslie Joy Ahenda
Contributing Author
The Republic of Home by Leslie Joy Ahenda is a Blasted Tree original collection of poetry.
ISBN [Digital]: 978-1-987906-92-9
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