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Mary Jo Bang
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“I say Come Back and you do / Not do what I want. / The train unrolls its track and sends its sound forward.”
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“Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.”
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“You, singularly you. And gone / Invisible.”
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“The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.”
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“A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.”
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“It was the season of quiet: / The quiet of death. / The uneasy quiet / After the gasp in the middle / Of the terrible, terrible movie / That someone had made and kept showing.”
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“To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.”
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“It begins to sink in. Dead / Is dead, not just not / Here. The knife never dulls, / Does it, Dearie, / On the blade side.”
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“You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.”
Mary Jo Bang, U.S. poet, educator
(1946)