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12/5/16

AND THE SCARS WILL BE COVERED - Richard Shelton

responsibility fell at my feet
like a dead bird
and I left it for the collectors of feathers

now I am leaving these words on sand
for the water
and when everything is gone
a voice will say
that’s home
where two paths cross without speaking
where a lost shoe full of darkness
is curled up
under the roots of the snow

then I will point myself in the right direction
alone I hope
I was never much for company
and start off down an empty road
toward winter and a silence
which no one will ever repair