BY AMORAK HUEY
we are sorry we have so little to offer a song
a song that never ends a bird not flying a day’s
last vulnerable moments a nest before sleep
this prayer we teach hope is it a kindness
to pass on this world? or is
it cruelty pretending we cannot see
the darkness below the bush beneath the thorns
cannot hear the silence inevitable as a bullet’s whistle?
we ask so much of each other we have so little to give
Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). He teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.