BUSH SOUL
the trees are dying for me to write
I could never write a sentence to make up for that
even the air feels borrowed
breathing to death
bless the breaths in my diaphragm
I’m writing as a dying man.
new poem from the Winter 2013 issue: Jeff St. James, Bush Soul
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