grave dancing

by R.M. Engelhardt



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Time howling
Withering
Time Dreaming
Time Sleeping

Where we dance
Upon our
Night’s desires
Until the end
Of days




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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.

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trigger warning: this poem may contain love, america, the ghosts of feeling sorry, radiohead lyrics, justice and injustice (in order), the prefrontal cortex, random assorted fish, and a pregnant baby