this too
Thursday, September 01, 2005
  World Service News
The 3 am news
New Orleans
Baghdad
and a young Russian boy recalls the Baslan school seige:
"I was thinking maybe Harry Potter would come and we would escape"


too
much pain
in the world

this
clammy night
of wakeful listening

our
smaller closer
wide-webbed world

still
too huge

for one heart
 
Comments:
Oh, yes, well said! I haven't had the words for it at all.
 
Very nice, Jean.
 
I like this.
 
it hurts, saying what I don't have words for.
 
I love your hay(no)ku! Isn't it an interesting form - not so far form prose, but with a peculiar rhythm all its own. Nice!
 
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