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We Don't All Sleep When Night Falls

We Don't All Sleep When Night Falls

...because the noise just won't go away.

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Thomas Kneeland, MA, MFA
Dec 24, 2023
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We Don't All Sleep When Night Falls
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it hurts to write a poem from my bedroom
my desk	      a sort of sanctuary for sore fingers
when there’s no sanctuary for beautiful souls
	how could more than 20,000 of them be gone
how does the earth still turn without springing
wells from their sockets in the crust	   
hardly a refuge                every source mu…

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