Phantom Twin
By Katy Lederer
We did not want to be
unblessed, so we were blessed.
Long, thin wire, a little
patch where we might lay our
heads. It was this way, this
looking fore and back, a pole
held tightly in our
hands. You want to tell me
what went wrong? Confusing
shapes across a wall, depression
in the ground. The gorgeous
soldiers fought and fell. Hie
unto hell. How we will lie in
that brave grave apart,
our aperture: a heart
that has been ruptured
absolutely by a passing God.
Copyright Credit: Katy Lederer, “Phantom Twin.” Copyright © 2019 by Katy Lederer. Used by permission of the author for PoetryNow.
Source: PoetryNow (2019)