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Another Poem for the Possum

 

eight trumpeter swans

release snow from their gravity

and grave gravity

 

transfixing a wooden feather

to behold a slightly varnished sky

 

the possum’s eye has stopped blinking

 

for all it has seen

 

for all this salt

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Lasche

Haley Lasché is the founder, designer and editor of Concision Poetry Journal. Her poems have appeared in such places as Landlocked Magazine, Human Repair Kit and Nice Cage. She has two poetry chapbooks: Where It Leads (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and Blood and Survivor (Locofo Chaps, 2017). She lives in Minnesota with her sweet son.