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Two Ways of Looking at Plague/Nothing Changes
I.
The steady rhythm of indifferent machines in the lazarettos is the music punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death. In the lazarettos
the heartbeats of hostages are punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death, breaking time into teardrops. The heartbeats of hostages are the fury of grief, breaking time into teardrops
staining the reality of now. The fury of grief is the music
staining the reality of now:
the steady rhythm of indifferent machines.
II.
In the lazarettos the steady rhythm of indifferent machines is the music punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death. The steady rhythm of indifferent machines and the heartbeats of hostages are punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death. Breaking time into teardrops. And the heartbeats of hostages are the fury of grief, breaking time into teardrops staining the reality of now. The fury of grief is the music staining the reality of now in the lazarettos.
The Author
RC deWinter’s poetry is widely anthologized, notably in New York City Haiku (NY Times, 2/2017), Now We Heal: An Anthology of Hope, (Wellworth Publishing, 12/2020) easing the edges: a collection of everyday miracles (Patrick Heath Public Library of Boerne , 11/2021,) The Connecticut Shakespeare Festival Anthology (River Bend Bookshop Press, 12/2021), in print: 2River, Event Magazine, Gargoyle Magazine, Meat For Tea: The Valley Review, the minnesota review, Night Picnic Journal, Plainsongs, Prairie Schooner, Ogham Stone, San Antonio Review, Southword, Twelve Mile Review, Variant Literature, Yellow Arrow Journal, The York Literary Review among others and appears in numerous online literary journals.
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