Poetry

March 21, 2019 Poetry , POETRY / FICTION

flickr/Banksy

 

By

Penn Kemp

 

 

 

The Spread

 

 

Limit the news

and blood still

 

seeps under our door

through the silence

 

crying peace, peace

when there is no peace

 

We awake in comfort

when those others don’t

 

We feast to celebrate

when others can’t

 

All the while what

else to do but be

 

kind to one’s own

kind and to all yours

 

out there where

kindness needs

most to spread

 

 

 

 

 

Mary McDonald photo

Penn Kemp

Penn Kemp is the author most recently of Fox Haunts (Aeolus House, 2018) and Local Heroes  (Insomniac Press, 2018). New eco-poems, including her multimedia collaboration with artist Mary McDonald on www.riverrevery.ca, will be published as River Revery (Insomniac Press, 2019). Quattro Books has published two other works, Barbaric Cultural Practice, and an anthology Penn edited, Jack Layton: Art in Action.

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