Mark Danowsky


Background

We watch the same movie & it means two different things


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From a window we don’t own
after Pound

No view of faces or petals—
only brick, wires, blank sky—
the 65 bus coming & going


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To be a shark


grow teeth as needed

never stop moving

be Zen Master of the hunt


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Attention


I misdirect myself

again & again


disappear time

into flashing blue lights


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the living and the dead

do not compete

for the same real estate


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after the memorial service for you


all I want to do is

message you to let you know

how it went


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Linger

that scent

on your hands after

arranging tomatoes


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Mark Danowsky is author of the poetry collection As Falls Trees (NightBallet Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in The Healing Muse, North Dakota Quarterly, Peacock Journal, Right Hand Pointing, and elsewhere. He’s Managing Editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal.
 
 
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