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Louie Skipper: How did John Keats breathe
How did John Keats breathe
a nightingale’s song surrendering to human fear,
to death and words that remain among us,
always only this moment turning loose before flying away?
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Where is the bronze statue to the drunk
who shared a cell
in the Concord jail with Thoreau,
that singular anonymous essential man
snoring like a midwife the night
An Essay On Civil Disobedience was born?
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Is there a bumblebee too fat to learn to fly?
Copyright 2018 Louie Skipper. From The Work Ethic of the Common Fly (Settlement House, 2018)
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Louie Skipper is an Episcopalian priest and college chaplain in Montgomery, Alabama.
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