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Two Poems

By John Steffler

  • Burrowing

  • work is a way of hiding,
  • burrowing busily busily like a hamster
  • in a corner of its cage
  • by now
  • it’s better not to stop
  • and look around at what you’ve made
  • the grief will just send you
  • burrowing, burrowing
  • The Giving of Names

  • Just looking at you I
  • hear myself start and you
  • pour your brook through
  • my favourite forest as
  • I relax on the couch.
  • At the sound of their names
  • creatures step out of the
  • air between us, mistreated
  • days, blurred
  • minutes shake themselves
  • and stand up, pushing their
  • noses under our hands
  • wanting to play.

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  • Issue 027
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