a raker of dust, a rattler of bones

by R.M. Engelhardt

An unknown author once wrote, once

said that our world is a dying world

of fragmentation and of despair

Thus, making the poet, the writer the

raker of dust, the rattler of bones

&

Like the shaman

The very last of their kind

All lost

Gone

The poets, the dreamers

all dead & buried

Before the  end of

The 21st century

With no magick

No purpose

No words

All myth

All lore

Detached & destroyed

In the chaos

That is life

That they call progress

The prophets

Have left the building

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BIO: R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer & author whose work over the last 30 years has been published in such journals as Thunder Sandwich, Full of Crow, Rusty Truck, Writers’ Resist, Dry Land Lit, Rye Whiskey Review, Hobo Camp Review & many others. He currently lives & writes in Upstate NY. His books of poetry are entitled DarkLands (Whiskey City Press 2019) & We Rise Like Smoke Poems Psalms & Incantations. He is also the founder of the group Albany Poets and the editor of Dead Man's Press Ink, a small poetry press based in Albany NY. His new book of poems is entitled RAW: Poems By R.M. Engelhardt (2023). His books are available on Amazon.com &  also through Barnes & Noble.