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Friday, December 26, 2008

Shackled to Veins - POEM of the WEEK! 12/27

Shackled to Veins

I am bound to the gravity
Of each situation I pass
From the fall of an hourglass
Met in restrained antiquity
Which limits creativity
By the links in my chains
As I am shackled to veins.


Also published (in moderately different form),
in the 2007 Ina Coolbrith Circle Anthology
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