Not mine, but changed my life a tiny bit this morning. As poetry has the capacity to do from time to time.
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Preparedness
By Rae Armantrout
Animals find us eerie.
We can see what’s coming
in broad strokes —
washed out,
frequently displaced.
Still, it smites us.
Like ghosts we pass back and forth
between times,
stunned,
unable to feel
what we touch.
We believe in abstractions.
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That’s one way to explain
our failure to prepare.
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Preparedness
By Rae Armantrout
Animals find us eerie.
We can see what’s coming
in broad strokes —
washed out,
frequently displaced.
Still, it smites us.
Like ghosts we pass back and forth
between times,
stunned,
unable to feel
what we touch.
We believe in abstractions.
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That’s one way to explain
our failure to prepare.
