Consolation

by Daniel Berrigan


Original Language English

Listen
if now and then
you hear the dead
muttering like ashes
creaking like empty
rockers on porches

filling you in filling you in

like winds in empty
branches like a star
in wintry trees
so far
so good

you've mastered finally
one foreign tongue

-- from Prayer for the Morning Headlines: On the Sanctity of Life and Death, by Daniel Berrigan / Edited by Adrianna Amari

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Consolation