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"Silence"

By Mark FrancisPublished about a year ago 1 min read
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sitting not sleeping alone

in the ebony grain of the small hours

lost to traffic on any known road

everything called “the world”

night abides and makes a blanket of its own

closes round in swaddling whole

embrace

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Mark Francis

Published translator of verse and original writer of haiku, senryu, lyric, occasional and genre poetry and speculative fiction.

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