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Threadbare

from Threadbare EP by Shane Murphy

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Belief in the same ritual?
I pile these stones for the next
threadbare pilgrim, relieve
my dry throat with water
that cleaves the rock with its run
from a summit I can't see.

There is no darkness
in which I won't wake
to deny that the light has taught me most.

In a vise of forefinger and thumb
earth is evidence enough
of eventual decay.
Anonymous as a new moon
I follow by rote
the stones piled by threadbare pilgrims.

Need is not quite belief.*

*from "With Mercy for the Greedy" by Anne Sexton

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from Threadbare EP, released April 19, 2011

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