THE WAY IT GOES
Driving by
our old home
on Mayfair,
the cairn was gone
the tire swing
still floating there.
—from Rattle #85, Fall 2024
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Wendy Videlock: “It’s always seemed to me that there is really nowhere to turn but the arts. Poetry in particular bypasses the dominant culture’s insistence on fragmentation and polarization, offering us instead a sense of integration and wholeness.” (web)