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A Praise to the Last

from Miracle Strip by Matt Layne

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A Praise to the Last

Is this how spawning
salmon feel? Tender, surging,
so desperately awkward? Is this
why skydivers step into empty air?
To glimpse the world laid out in sensible
symmetry? The piercing bite of dandelions.
The taste of blood and earth, and sweet Jesus!
such pleasure.
No one told me this truth.
No preacher railed this good news
from street-corner or pulpit. My father
never tossed me these words in the side-yard.
No teacher wrote them in lesson plans or scrawled
the truth of them across the board in quivering chalk lines,
every kiss but the last kiss is a lie.

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from Miracle Strip, released August 31, 2022

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Matt Layne Birmingham, Alabama

Poet, librarian, raconteur; Matt Layne has been poking hornet's nests and looking under rocks since he was knee-high to a peanut peg.
I reckon you oughta check him out.

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