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If the threat is a symbol

If the threat is a symbol

for violence, and violence
is an emblem of death,
then death is a cipher—
a cat’s eye or diamond—
and tomorrow is a hollow
twig in a stand of dead twigs.

–Christine Gardiner


Poetry

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