Shaking Off the River
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Shaking Off the River

Brian Beatty Brian Beatty

Brian Beatty

Works at Curious Plot

发布日期: 2017年1月23日
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The dog disappears

leaving only splashes

of mud to remind us


of everything deeply moving

now missing from

this life.

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An earlier version of this poem first appeared online at The Good Men Project.

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