Into the Teeth of the Wind

Selected poem from Volume IV, Issue 1

Teeth cover

Barry Spacks

The Last Poem

It comes from a distance, like starlight
your last poem, and your last day as well.

Both pause to whisper advisements:
Kindness. Right Choices. Flow.

The last day passes
as first and last days will

but the poem
stays a while with me.

It’s not its fine
wisdom-sayings

move me, no,
brave as those may be,

but the feather in its cap,
its swagger and lurch,

how it feels so righteously
natty and you

in its signature clothing.

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Last modified by Britta Gustafson on 5/4/09.

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