The Sky is Crawling with Midnight
by Ray Corvi



& though the leaves are green,

Every one of them is dying.


The sacrifice of volition & the apotheosis

Of letting go—


Is this a form of escapism:


Loud music, several empty bottles of pills, and the phantom

Sound of someone urgently pounding on the door?


War will break out shortly. War has already broken out.

The dead are piling up in ditches. Nobody can explain why


There persists the smell of honeysuckle.


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