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Love In the Time of Plague
Love In the Time of Plague

Global Awareness
I give you the gift of poetry . . .
--Emily Isaacson
Meditations in a Flame
Captive to my
merchants
in the eye of the
aurora,
eclipsed into eternity—
warers and vendors,
stumbling over
the dogs,
skewed among the flames;
each fruit, from a blossom,
each having torn a leaf.
O cross of thorns:
how desperate is your
eye, unseen,
in the voice of his dying.
--Emily Isaacson, The Fleur-de-lis (2011)

Midnight
Midnight