tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703109149114662371.post634463428198810569..comments2023-10-08T03:37:52.113-05:00Comments on Poem Bouquet: Stephen Dunnhannah janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06761916469652723385noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703109149114662371.post-11855410183690440362011-02-27T21:12:25.417-06:002011-02-27T21:12:25.417-06:00Salvation
Stephen Dunn
Finally, I gave up on ob...Salvation<br /><br />Stephen Dunn <br /><br />Finally, I gave up on obeisance, <br />and refused to welcome <br />either retribution or the tease <br /><br /><br />of sunny days. As for the can’t-be- <br />seen, the sum-of-all-details, <br />the One—oh, when it came <br /><br /><br />to salvation I was only sure <br />I needed to be spared <br />someone else’s version of it. <br /><br /><br />The small prayers I devised <br />had in them the hard sounds <br />of split and frost. <br /><br /><br />I wanted them to speak <br />as if it made sense to speak <br />to what isn’t there <br /><br /><br />in the beaconless dark. <br />I wanted them to startle <br />by how little they asked.Pepper McKeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07235285852212643008noreply@blogger.com