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Anthony Opal

Poetry

Sonnet

if suffering doesn’t bring aboutresurrection the longing inherentto suffering will do it (intuita spark a fire intuit Christ non-existent for three days not simply...
Poetry

Sonnet

joyous G-d with a diphthong for a heartspeaking guttural utterancesand finding some soil to dig intocalls man up like a whirlwind from the dust...
Poetry

Sonnet

so the angel Gabriel kept his wordand hid his face for my own good he spokethings that I couldn’t understand I wasfilled with sparks and my joints began...
Poetry

Bagatelle sans tonalité

I listen from the other room as slow bells ring,as you take each glass from the waterwashing it with the soapy canary yellow dishrag...
Poetry

The year of the cicada

Jesus lights a fire on the shoreand waits for the thin blue dawn.Time folds like a piece of paper.Time reaches its end and everythingkeeps going. Boats rise and fall...

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