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Apr/May 2019 Poetry

Origins

by Marjorie Mir

Excerpted imagery from photography by Kris Saknussemm

Excerpted imagery from photography by Kris Saknussemm



Origins

What is it that joins them?
A rising up:
dayspring out of darkness
wellspring out of rock
offspring out of flesh

And out of the awakened earth,
a lengthened light,
an end to thirst,
new life, its genealogy
eons old,
astonishing each time.

 

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