in the news today

I know there’s what’s happening
in the world
to make
it real
enough honestly to take part
gather in
share stories
help
and ask for help
for all those who are not us and yet
we share the world

like fog when manifest
       presume it’s
       always
       manifest
moves through and by its need
relates us all by exigence

an element and need
of circumstance
whatever we enact within
one
form of consequence
the other
love or hate
war or peace
to share
and by that
all of us
by what is bad
or we might surprise good
either way
act
or result by what happens
what we happen
bind
and by are bound by
fate sometimes it’s
said
better by the love of world even
at war
at home or in trenches
actually to share
it all

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could be the final poem of the evening (in a reading)

photo by Bank Phrom on Unsplash
“Print Is Alive” (given caption)