Zócalo Public SquareLETTER FROM THE COUNTRY – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 LETTER FROM THE COUNTRY https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/12/22/fred-schmalz/chronicles/poetry/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/12/22/fred-schmalz/chronicles/poetry/#respond Fri, 22 Dec 2023 08:01:11 +0000 by Fred Schmalz https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=140402   My brother
what do I do now with my impulse
to tie our shoes together and launch them into the wire
the way I think you think
sublime vistas are conjured I prepare a curse
to cleanse personal nostalgias I stand
a bullet on a fence post to indicate arrival
calling later than usual your home the last thing
I do not know apologies
news of the truce the road back struck
an ineffable silence where our sympathies
have peace to make our trails both
converge and run cold

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My brother
what do I do now

with my impulse
to tie our shoes together

and launch them into the wire
the way I think

you think
sublime vistas are conjured

I prepare a curse
to cleanse personal nostalgias

I stand
a bullet on a fence post

to indicate arrival
calling later than usual

your home the last thing
I do not know

apologies
news of the truce

the road back struck
an ineffable silence

where our sympathies
have peace to make

our trails both
converge and run cold

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