A day to drain the last of a coffee and order
a third. For the sparrow to beak a crust from his plate
and leave behind the epileptic tremor of fence wire
before bird and wire are still again.

In the same way that his marriage, ended
rather than failed, barely vibrates in him now.
And he forgets the new arthritic pain in his left knee
that woke him, that his mother has lost

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Everything in its Place

Anthony Lynch

Autumn 2017

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