TIME – II

It’s a grim time
no doubt about it
hard to tell though –
mine
the globe’s
maybe of the cosmos
or in crashing unison
a harmony of darkness.

Digging deep in
the black soil
shovels-full
answers
coming faint
like the washed-out footprint
of some small animal
use it up!

– Diane Sophrin.
  Vermont, 9.18.19

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