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        AFTERWARD  -  AFTERWORD   

 

OPENING

 

I set the steel cage "live trap"

to rid my chickens of death and nightmare

and found, the next morning,

the trap locked shut, the bait gone,

and a tuft of raccoon fur along one side

where she had pushed and pushed

against an invisible weakness toward freedom.

She found the open end, out past which

this cage maker hoped to limit her dreams

and end her coming and going.

 

The opening that draws us:

 

The child to the cardboard box to play,,,

the cat to the paper bag,,,

the fetus feels toward one exit only

which will define it's warm liquid death

toward growth.

 

Inside what container

does each of us long to escape? 

And who, for all this coming and going ,

knows any other purpose:

 

The opening, the invisible spot,

out through which a lack of resistance

defines for us our freedom.









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