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Poem of the Week
Standing beside the Rock
Gary Blankenship

a bowl
with slightly less volume
than a porcelain teacup

and part of that
taken up by stone

minimal soil
enough to hold roots
and to barely feed

firmly planted
beside a tiny jade peasant

copper wire
to hold branches
as if wind-swept by the sea

on the backboard
among her other toys

through streaked windows
glimpses of the clan
free to grow

unfettered firs
reach for the sky

*

If I live
to be one hundred years
or even more,
will I ever understand,
how I came to this?

Trussed, tied,
bent to another’s will
with nothing
but kitsch doo-dads
and silence for company.

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