Long Listed for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Awards

Wayfarers
 
     We are the forever wayfarers, we never had a place
of our own, where are we headed? Whence do we come?
Sometime we dwell somewhere for a while but soon after
Fate remembers us and we leave.
     And only rarely when night falls and the violets shiver
on the fences, a strange glare floods us, a sensation that we
return to where they had exiled us.
     Or perhaps the twilight is our only homeland.
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