Wednesday, October 09, 2019

For Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln is a shore I can never reach
tall among contradictions
with the speech of angels.

who is with Whitman
cannot look at lilacs again
ever the same way.

and so I contribute
my sprig too
having visited your monument

on a summer day
I dont remember anything else
except that it seemed

you could rise again from the marble
to say exactly what you said before
and be shot the same way.

mary angela douglas 9 october 2019

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