Arts & Entertainment

A Sunday Afternoon Poem

Unfolding by Valerie Sonnenthal

Unfolding

in the night

dogs cry

waves

carry the waiver

the shivering

frightful

timber

of souls

taken en masse

riding up

and up

back

and around

risen

in the smacking

fragments

particles

of a civilized existence

battered

splintered

lives

forever shattered

something

in the Physics of each moment

unfolding

~ Valerie Sonnenthal

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