Louie Skipper: A single minute

A single minute

taking in a memo of the suspicious supervisor

or hearing out

the bill collector on the telephone,

and seven thousand years

of knowing a loving God

become hapless fancy.

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What great assemblies must come to order

before summer can begin?

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Is there any joy

about the making of love,

the baking of bread,

the falling of rain,

that the dead were not celebrating

long before any of us were ever born?

Copyright 2018 Louie Skipper. From The Work Ethic of the Common Fly (Settlement House, 2018)

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