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Peregrinations

Frank De Canio

What is life if not a moment’s breach
with death; a sentinel in place to guard
the heartland which we left behind us
in our quest to help restore a troubled peace.
Life’s a brief respite from bliss; a kindling light
that seeds the night with harried fields that yield
the harvests that we reap till turning over in the heap
from which we stirred. Life’s a bankrupt state
of past desires’ vested interests; arousal’s panoply
of hypnagogic images; a posthumous jostling
of death’s headboard by collapsing stars;
a personified Pleiades who tuck us into cosmic pockets
when we’re young and rocket us to Mars
when sleep’s deep enough to reach the Morning star.
Life’s a nova in the galaxy of death; a fracture
in the fortress of the universe, a dissonance in music
of the spheres; death’s bad dream before awakening.

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