Monday, 30 November 2020

The Cry. Leah Hokanson. (So Held By Sky: Five Gabriola Poets. 2020)

 


The Cry 


Leah Hokanson


I have wondered about the cry 

     that could end all cries 


I wonder if it’s possible

     to cry so deeply, and just enough 


I imagine us holding one another

and staying until the end 

                      

     the end of this epic cry


Days, weeks, months  

it would last – the necessity of it

     this cry that could last for years


And we would stay with it


There would be no need to get along

     or get over, or get over it


we would hold each tear’s testimony 

     to what got lost, what couldn’t stay


We would find our way to the end

     decades, perhaps, or a century


long enough 


and no longer


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