Saturday, January 14, 2012

Brutal

Brutal to give
the prisoner a window --
a blue sky glimpse --

as if an afterlife
existed. Brutal
for you to parade

in a body
in the same
room where I dream you.


-- Andrea Cohen, from Poetry magazine, November 2011

2 comments:

helen tilston said...

This poem moved me.

Thank you for sharing it
Helen

afton said...

oy. that hit a nerve. thanks for sharing.