The Culmination

By John Lee Clark
An erasure of  Laura Redden Searing’s “My Story”
Generous instinct, were you
My hand I must
Think. The later brain.
My hands craving every
Learned heart. Nature, art,
World. In my memories
I thought of trust
Then all fear. I
Fell on my pain.
Hope shall in loss
Throb. My, my, my
Stand for the release.
A nation’s groan beneath
Dear night. All right.



 

Source: Poetry (October 2018)