How We Might Be Made

In a cloistered class
Someone could
Ask
Maybe
Inspired by
A word

Where do we live
Inside
And how might that relate
To what’s outside

Say
(say)
How do we
Live inside
In a war
And then after
If alive
In a time of troubled
Unbelieving peace

Inside
While
Waiting for what happens
To break and ruin
Outside
Once again

How does we prize
Our own
Ambition
Against all the things
In the world
That
Take the pursuit of
Dreams
Away

How do we act our dreams
After war
Even a war with nature
Though
War with each other
With humanity
Seems worse

But after trauma
Living trauma

Then in such a group
To begin
A response

Well
(well)
We hope
We can

C L Couch


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