Long Listed for the 2023 Griffin Poetry awards

Event

I admit if we had to risk our lives we would had done it

but how could one endure that other thing, unless he had

died and that woman with the grey dress who walked away

was so sad that the skies recognized her “Maria” a voice

was heard; these images that we never lived on this earth,

from where do they come?

We stood on a line, with the tin cans in hand waiting for

our evening meal. And the stars, one by one, started to shine

upon the endless sky.

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