The Shepherd's Elegy

from The Shepherd's Elegy
John C. Goodman


This is here.
Not the where that was nor the when that will be.
The was that which is or the went that were not.

the morning is soft
as hair across your eyes
. the scars on
your body are not
your sins . you cover
me like fresh
snow on winter hills .


i thought . there was . a secret . to the universe . but there isn’t . this crap . we go through . every day . is all . there is . all .


we waited for the rain


“There is nowhere to go but the future,” he said.


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